Assistance Needed: ‘Noindex’ Tag Issues in Google Search Console

Hello,

Please note that sitemaps are by default set to Noindex as they are meant to be crawled and not to be displayed on search results pages.

You should only submit your sitemap to the sitemap section of your GSC account and if Google can fetch the sitemap, you don’t have to worry.
https://rankmath.com/kb/submit-sitemap-to-google/

In case, you’re facing this error on the page indexing section, you can safely ignore this.

Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
 
Thank you.

Hello,

These are pages that are dynamically generated from Woocommerce and they are set for indexing by default. You can block Google from accessing them by using the following robots.txt directives:

User-agent: *
Disallow: *add-to-cart=*
Disallow: * filter_color=*
Disallow: * add_to_wishlist=*

Here’s how you edit your robots.txt in Rank Math plugin: https://rankmath.com/kb/how-to-edit-robots-txt-with-rank-math/

You can also make use of the filter code below to set them to noindex in their robots meta:

add_filter('rank_math/frontend/robots', function ($robots) {
	$excluded_params = [
		'add-to-cart',
		'filter_color',
'add_to_wishlist'
	];

	$url = home_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
	foreach ($excluded_params as $param) {
		if (strpos($url, '?' . $param . '=') !== false || strpos($url, '&' . $param . '=') !== false) {
			$robots['index'] = 'noindex';
			$robots['follow'] = 'nofollow';
			break;
		}
	}

	return $robots;
});

You may refer to this guide on how to add filters to your website: https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

Hope that helps.

Hello,

In this case, you should check your Google Search Console > Indexing > Pages section to determine any issues reported on your URLs that may have prevented your site from being indexed:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7440203?hl=en

To better understand the status reported, you may refer to our guide here:
https://rankmath.com/kb/url-inspection-api-integration/#not-indexed

Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

The screenshot you’ve shared is an attachment page, not your actual image.

When you upload a media file to the WordPress Media Library, WordPress creates a separate media attachment page for each individual file, and having the attachment pages as “noindex” or redirecting to the parent page is actually the preferred method to handle those and we mention the same here: https://rankmath.com/kb/should-you-redirect-attachments/

Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
 
Thank you.

Hello,

Adding the Allow: / directive will render the above Disallow rules useless:

Please remove the Allow: / rule as this is not needed.

Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us if you have any other questions.