"Your homepage cannot be indexed by search engines. This is very bad for SEO and

I’ve got the same problems. like you i did the registration and have not received the login details from OnPage’s site, and this was done yesterday.

It’s not a server issue (where the server is intended as a dedicated server or a VPS), as I’ve got other site on my server which are doing very well on google, I do have this notification only on wordpress where I’ve got Yoast plugin.

I suppose we have to wait that they take their time to send login details, or change seo plugin. Unfortunately I’ve got this plugin on 50+ sites, and I don’t know exporting seo setting from Yoast to another plugin works, I’ll look into this, and if I found a good and reliable solution I’ll post it.

I think I nailed it!
I’ve fixed the problem on about 50 wordpress sites, it worked on all but 1, which means that 1 might have a separate issue, didn’t have the time to check it thoroughly.

I started to think the problem could have originated from a compatibility issue with other plugins, as i know for sure the server is absolutely fine.

the problem is with security setting on wordpress. If you have a plugin such as wordfence (or any other) try to lower the security setting.

Now carefull, the issue that Yoast points is absolutely right. some security setting will stop our site to be indexed. However, this is not anywhere near as bad as a google de-indexing. If your site is mature and well positioned, it will have I believe little effect in the short term. But, if your site is very recent, it’s possible that it won’t have had the time to climb into position in google and with tight security setting chances are that will not climb the google rank until one sort out the indexability problem. So it’s a real issue which needs to be addressed.

In wordfence (as an example) try to lower the security level at 3, or 2 (not level 4) and Yoast plugin will show the positive message You ight need to re-fetch and refresh the page afterward.

The problem is that my site (and several others that I work on) have been dealing with brute force attacks. Lowering the Wordfence security may not be such a good trade off for SEO.

I was given the same kind of “solution” by Yoast support.

Using Google Webmaster Tools, I verified there is in fact no problem with Google indexing my sites.

It is ludicrous to ask site owners to lower their security settings in order to eliminate an incorrect error message, when you should be able to opt out of the whole yoast/onpage/yoursite connection thing in the first place.

I do agree with you that is not a good practice to lower security measure for whatever reason.

however, plugin-based security are not sufficient (my opinion, and I’m sure some server administrators will agree with me) to fully protect your wordpress site. Some attackers are capable of getting through and still attack your login area. even with a combination of plugins + firewall.

I do recommend strongly to set up a very very very strong password, and carefully chosen the username. Password 18 charcacters long, with symbols numbers etc.
if your wordpress is not a blog, but just a website made in wordpress, one thing that seems to hold well is to add an extra layer (extra login) before wordpress login area, with .htaccess (assuming your server is apache).

as for yoast, it’s a good plugin. but for doing serious SEO you need much more than that. so, I would say that security is the number one concern with wordpress.

Similar issues. … FOLLOWING

The current version of Yoast now has a way to disable the onpage.org check:

Yoast SEO: General Settings/OnPage.org: uncheck the “enable onpage.org indexability check” checkbox, then click save changes.

I’m getting the same thing on a site, which doesn’t have WordFence. We’re running the free Sucuri plugin, but there’s no reason this warning/error should show up at all.

There is no robots.txt file and no robot meta in the source code. Search engines appear to be crawling the site just fine. Only Yoast and OnPage are showing the noindex/nofollow. OnPage says it’s a meta robot tag…. except there isn’t one in the html. .htaccess looks good as well.

I’m hoping this is a bug in the plugin, because otherwise it looks like Yoast SEO is pushing me to OnPage, which is trying to get me to pay money for a service I don’t want, to find this non-existent error. Honestly, it looks fishy from this perspective.

I’m having this issue too. I first contacted my host and was told there is no issue there. I then contacted my theme developer and I was told by my that it’s not a theme issue. I did check the wordpress dashboard and it IS allowing search engine robots to index my home page. This is obviously a yoast issue. I checked Google Webmaster Tools and it is showing that my homepage isn’t indexing.

Message from my theme developer:

This is not a theme issue. Our Theme does not have any setting to prevent search engine robots from indexing site.

It’s a WordPress setting.

Login to your WordPress Dashboard.
Go to -> Settings -> Reading -> Search Engine Visibility
Uncheck the check box and save your changes.
This will allow search engine robots to index your site.

It is also possible to set whether to index or not to index your site or page or post in your third part SEO plugin.
You will have to contact the plugin developer for more details.

Interesting. The first “help” issue on Yoast SEO is this…….

Yoast SEO
Installing, configuring and using the free Yoast SEO plugin.

Your site isn’t indexable

If Yoast SEO reports your site as not indexable by search engines, this can be caused by several reasons. At the same time, it’s an issue of the highest priority, assuming that you want your site to be in Google’s index.

Our best advice is to use the “Analyze entire site” button, create an account on OnPage.org and see what they have to tell you. It could be that you have a robots.txt file that’s blocking indexation, it could be that your theme has some code in it that’s blocking search engines, etc. etc. OnPage.org can tell you what the problem is and how to fix it!

This plugin is slowly joining the junk status list, I installed it and it took my sites offline.

Whatever is going on is hard to troubleshoot and the plugin actually does the opposite of what they claim. Install it if you don’t want to be seen online.

Why is it I can see my inner pages but not my homepage. I am beginning to feel the same
about Yoast as well. One guy I know said he rolled his version back and solved the problem

Even if you uninstall Yoast, the problem still persists

I have already done that!