Woocomerce Products Nofollow

#100214
  • Resolved Josh
    Rank Math free

    Hi, It has come to my attention that products throughout our site are being indexed as “nofollow”. I understand Woocomerce does this by default to the “add to cart” button, but I cannot figure out why it doing it to my variable products links on the store front as well. I have disabled my custom them and most plugins, so I think it is default of Woocommerce, but I cannot figure out why Rank Math is not overriding the setting.

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  • Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

    I checked a number of products on your site and they all appear set to follow in the robots meta:
    <meta name="robots" content="follow, index, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1, max-image-preview:large"/>

    Is this not the case from your end, could you please share some URLs we need to check?

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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    Josh
    Rank Math free

    Hi Michael,
    Thanks for the reply. I notice it especially when I am on the storefront and look at the page source. Each product appears to have “nofollow” listed. Upon further inspection, I am thinking that the product photo (the first link to the product) is fine, but the “Select Options” link to the product is “nofollow”. I was digging through some Woocommerce update notes and this may be on purpose, as it is eliminating duplicate links on the page. Can you confirm that the default behavior is correct and Rank Math is optimizing properly? Thanks!

    Alberto
    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

    Sorry for this late reply. I am trying to log in and check everything but it seems the login URL is not working anymore, could you check it?

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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    Josh
    Rank Math free

    Hello,

    I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?

    Thank you.

    Hello,

    I don’t see any issue with Rank math configurations/behavior.

    Rank math configurations seem okay on your site. The nofollow attribute is not added by Rank math. It is actually added automatically to add to cart buttons on your shop page by WooCommerce. In your case you have modified this input button text to Select Options. The nofollow added to these buttons/links is normal and there is nothing to be worried about.

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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    Josh
    Rank Math free

    Great. Thanks for the follow up.

    Alberto
    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    We are super happy that this resolved your issue. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.

    If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.

    If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.

    Thank you.

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