noindex not removable - Support

Resolved Hugh Harsher
3 years, 5 months ago

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```
<li id="wp-admin-bar-rank-math-no-index" class="mark-page-as"><a href="#noindex">As NoIndex</a></li>

<a href="#noindex">As NoIndex</a>
```
When inspecting my frontpage at hughharsher.com there is a noindex tag caused by the rankmath plugin and I tried several things, including:

deleting all wordpress cache
search engine visibility is unchecked
tag archives robots meta are set to index

The noindex tag only appears when I activate the rankmath plugin.
I’d greatly appreciate any help.

using wordpress/elementor pro

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Reinelle
3 years, 5 months ago

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention. I’m sorry for any inconvenience this issue may have caused you.

It is a pretty common mistake to open the page source and search for a noindex tag to see if the page is marked as noindex or not. In your case, you saw the mention of noindex and assumed that the page is set as noindex. The actual noindex tag is added like this:

<meta robots="noindex">

But, it seems that you’re referring to the No Index option that Rank Math offers in the admin menu bar

$Mark this page$

You can also use this tool to verify the meta robots for your pages and see if they are set to noindex:
https://smallseotools.com/meta-tags-analyzer/

I hope that helps.

Thank you.

Hugh Harsher
3 years, 5 months ago

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Thanks for your speedy response!

checking my url with the link you provided, I got following results for the meta robots:

follow, index, max-snippet:1, max-video-preview:1, max-image-preview:large

So if I understand correctly, everything should work and google should be able to index my domain?

Thanks and stay safe

Md. Sakib Khandaker
3 years, 5 months ago

Rank Math agency

Hello,

Yes, you got it right. Your page is set to follow, index. Which means Google should able to crawl and index that URL on SERPs without any issue.

Hope that helps, and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

Thank you.

Hugh Harsher
3 years, 5 months ago

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Thank you, appreciate the quick and easy help. 5 stars. Cheers

Princess
3 years, 5 months ago

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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