Google Search Console Not Indexing due to Nofollow/noindex

Hello,

I apologize for the issue you are facing with Google Search Console not indexing your site/pages. It sounds like there might be a few things to check regarding the noindex and nofollow settings.

1. Check Your Robots.txt File: Ensure that your robots.txt file does not contain any disallow rules that might be blocking Google from crawling your pages. You can edit your robots.txt file in Rank Math by navigating to WordPress Dashboard → Rank Math SEO → General Settings → Edit robots.txt. Make sure there are no disallow rules that could prevent indexing.
   

2. Verify Titles & Meta Settings: Go to Rank Math SEO → Titles & Meta and check if the noindex or nofollow settings are applied to your posts or pages. Ensure that they are set according to your preferences. If you find any pages that should be indexed but are set to noindex, change them to index.
   

3. Global Settings: Also, check your global settings at WordPress Dashboard → Rank Math SEO → Titles & Meta → Posts/Pages/Products/CPTs and ensure that the Discourage search engines from indexing this site option is not enabled in WordPress Dashboard → Settings → Reading.
   

If you have checked all these settings and the issue persists, please reply to this ticket with the specific URL of your site so that a human agent can assist you further. Thank you for raising this concern, and we look forward to helping you resolve it!

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math support.

You have a disallow rule for all URLs on your robots.txt.

The robots.txt should be in this format:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Sitemap: https://wrightscustomhomes.com/sitemap_index.xml

You can follow this guide to learn how to edit the robots.txt using Rank Math: https://rankmath.com/kb/how-to-edit-robots-txt-with-rank-math/

We hope this helps. Please let us know if you have further questions or concerns.

Thank you.

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.