Mirella2000

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.

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.

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 managed to refresh the page and I could re-click on fetch again (or something similar) but it didn’t solve the problem.
I had to re-edit the snippet for the home page, i got the seo green light, however it still shows on the dashboard the message “your home page cannot be indexed by search engine. This is very bad for SEO and should be fixed.”
What does it mean a SEO green light for the homepage as opposed to the message above? I believe it’s quite urgent to fix this.

On mine is shows only “fetch the entire site”. This is a link to Yoast homepage. And over there, there is no instructions about how to fix this issue, which appeared after updating yoast plugin.

Could you please explain how to fix this issue? thanks