Yoast SEO "Your homepage cannot be indexed by search engines"

  • Josh LR

    (@josh-lr)


    9 years ago

    Hi there everyone,

    Please forgive me i’m not an expert with WP, but I consider myself pretty well experienced with using it and generally very IT literate.

    Recently we updated the Yoast SEO plugin and now on the dashboard of our site we receive the following message:

    “Your homepage cannot be indexed by search engines. This is very bad for SEO and should be fixed.”

    So I followed further instructions and signed up at “onpage.org” and performed a full crawl of the website I work on (www.liferetreat.co.za).

    My questions are as follows:

    How can I fix:
    a) internal nofollow link errors.
    b) non-indexable pages with good OPR errors.
    c) Indexable pages which are not in sitemap.xml errors.

    Lastly, but importantly: how can I fix the original error message, that my “homepage cannot be indexed by search engines” ?

    I massively appreciate anyone who can help me with any of these problems.

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  • Ok Chris thank you for posting. I will put this on back burner for now. Good to see some feedback. Thank you.

    Hi Chris,
    I have been having the same problem… And perhaps even moreso!

    I administer many websites and I routinely block IP address ranges from AmazonAWS in .htaccess files.

    Why? Because of the prevalence of attacks on my sites! There are a lot of scrapers, sniffers, and just general hack-bots that come via AWS IPs.

    I don’t *like* blocking wide IP ranges, but it keeps my clients’ sites from being overloaded with bogus and potentially malicious traffic.

    At least because of this thread I’m able to cure my “…cannot be indexed” by turning off the OnPage.org indexability in Yoast SEO…
    Sorry!!

    elirnerak

    (@karenrilegmailcom)

    Thanks for this info! I have turned off OnPage indexability in the Yoast preference now, too.

    Go in to WordFence and under Options > Firewall Rules, uncheck “Immediately block fake Google crawlers”. See if that works as it did for me. I think that the Yoast indexing message is appearing because Yoast is using what WF considers to be a fake Google crawler. When I went to Google’s own “Fetch as Google” tool, the site would render even though Yoast claimed it was not being indexed.

    Hi,

    I had the same error message (Your homepage cannot be indexed by search engines) from Yoast and tried the fixes mentioned here (clicked on Fetch Again and refreshed Dashboard) with no luck. I do not use Wordfence plug-in, so I don’t think that’s my issue.

    I did open an account with onPage.org and got 1 error message, but I don’t know what it means or how to fix it:

    Said my homepage was marked as “noindex,nofollow” and also said my homepage was “without compression”.

    Does anyone know what these errors mean and/or how to fix them? I’m pretty beginner at all the back-end aspects of running a blog.

    Would love any help you can provide!

    Thank you!
    Sarah

    Sarah, you may want to double check under Settings > Reading and then under “Search Engine Visibility” to make sure that “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” is unchecked.

    For me it is a WASTE OF MY TIME! and I am domne with Yoast plugin FOREVER. He can thanks ONPAGE whatever that is!

    As phidippides said a few comments ago, this worked for me as well:

    Go in to WordFence and under Options > Firewall Rules, uncheck “Immediately block fake Google crawlers”.

    I had to Fetch again in the Dashboard multiple times to clear the error, but it works as it should again.

    The weird part is, I have many sites using both Yoast and Wordfence, but only one had this issue.

    Vicky

    (@vickymedrano)

    I have the same problem and I agree with Mellco

    “Yoast needs to change that “Your homepage cannot be indexed by search engines” warning message to OnPage.org can not crawl your site. See FAQs about Wordfence. or something to that effect.”

    I have also turn off Enable OnPage.org indexability. There’s always Google Webmaster Tools to check your index status.

    Mellco: “Yoast needs to change that “Your homepage cannot be indexed by search engines” warning message to OnPage.org can not crawl your site. See FAQs about Wordfence. or something to that effect.”

    Please do this right now! I just wasted 30 minutes of my life because of this ridiculous warning!

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