No: 'noindex' detected in 'robots' meta tag of pages in GSC Coverage Report - Support

Resolved Mike Allen
4 years, 3 months ago

Rank Math pro
Content AI Starter Trial

Hi,

Most of my posts are labeled in GSC as “No: ‘noindex’ detected in ‘robots’ meta tag”:
https://ibb.co/MVQk4RJ

When I inspect these pages, this is what I see:
https://ibb.co/Lpdr64L

When I test the URL in GSC, then it says it’s OK:
https://ibb.co/T2Ck6fh

But the pages continue to be listed in GSC’s no-index report. I have waited a couple weeks and the pages I have submitted for re-indexing remain in the no-index report.

When I search on the page via Google search, then I find it:
https://ibb.co/L6T0SXd

This is how things are set-up in RankMath (I used this article as my guide: https://support.rankmath.com/ticket/google-search-no-noindex-detected-in-robots-meta-tag/ ):
https://ibb.co/jfrknt8
https://ibb.co/Wy026QQ
https://ibb.co/9VBCLT9

I think I have RankMath configured correctly, so why is GSC not indexing my pages?

Thanks!

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Michael Davis
4 years, 3 months ago

Rank Math pro

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math.

I checked the your posts and the are set to be indexed. This screenshot https://ibb.co/T2Ck6fh also shows GSC sees the availability of the URL as indexable.

It is quite unclear why GSC might be reading them as set to noindex in some instances. Please try the following:

–Head to your site, clear any cache you may have and exclude your sitemap from being cached.

–Confirm all your posts are added to the sitemap correctly by Going to yourdomain/sitemap_index.xml

–Head back to your GSC and remove any submitted sitemaps. Resubmit only the main sitemap and give it sometime to update.

Please let us know if the issue persists.

Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.
Mike Allen
4 years, 3 months ago

Rank Math pro
Content AI Starter Trial
correction….

Google does not seem to be crawling these pages on my site for more than a month. Perhaps this is the issue? I have tried to re-trigger…
- This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by Mike Allen.
Mike Allen
4 years, 3 months ago

Rank Math pro
Content AI Starter Trial

Hi. Tried this and it did not seem to resolve the issue. Here is another example:
https://www.loom.com/share/53ff0c493fde4b53980da97057b6c243

I have cleared the caches several times at the WP and CDN levels (even my own browser for good measure =) .

As you can see, Google does not seem to be crawling my site for more than a month. Perhaps this is the issue? I have tried to re-trigger a crawl of these pages for a couple weeks now and nothing I’ve tried seems to be effective.
https://ibb.co/tb2DjHt
https://ibb.co/2YhYQbL

Can you help?

Thanks!

Alberto
4 years, 3 months ago

Rank Math business

Hello,

In that case, I think we might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.

It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/

You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/

We really look forward to helping you.

RankBot
4 years, 2 months ago

Hello,

Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.

If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.

Thank you.

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