No index , no follow generated automated in site once activate plugin

Hello,

I apologize for the inconvenience you’re experiencing with the Rank Math plugin. It seems that the “noindex, nofollow” meta tag is being added to all your pages and posts, preventing your site from being indexed on Google Console and other search engines.

To resolve this issue, you can check the following settings:

1. Global Settings in Rank Math: Navigate to your WordPress Dashboard → Rank Math SEO → Titles & Meta → Posts/Pages/Products/CPTs and ensure that the “noindex” option is not enabled. Here’s a screenshot to help you locate the setting:

   

2. Robots.txt Rules: Check if there are any disallow tags in your website’s robots.txt file that might be preventing your pages from being indexed. You can use a robots.txt editor in Rank Math at WordPress Dashboard → Rank Math SEO → General Settings → Edit Robots.txt to change any disallow tags. Here’s a screenshot to help you locate the setting:

   

If you’ve already checked these settings and the issue persists, please let us know, and we’ll be happy to assist you further.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

Sources:
Why Google Hasn’t Indexed Your Post, Page, and/or Website? » Rank Math
How to Noindex URLs With Rank Math » Rank Math
Rank Math Sitemap Issues and Their Fixes » Rank Math
How to NoIndex All Posts in a Category » Rank Math
How to Fix the “Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt” Error » Rank Math

Hello,

Thank you for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to this issue.

We suspect this issue is caused by a theme/plugin. We tried to do a covert plugin/theme conflict check using the Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin but for some reason, the troubleshooting mode doesn’t work correctly on your site.

We then added the following filter to your site using the code snippets plugin to forcefully convert the nofollow and noindex attributes to follow and index:

add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/robots', function( $robots ) {
    // Set both index and follow attributes for all post types
    $robots['index'] = 'index';
    $robots['follow'] = 'follow';

    return $robots;
});

All posts/pages of your site are now bearing follow and index attributes in the robots tag.

You still have to determine which plugin or if the theme is responsible for this issue. You can refer to this guide on how to run a plugin/theme conflict check: https://rankmath.com/kb/check-plugin-conflicts/

Please remove this code from your functions.php file:

remove_filter( ‘wp_robots’, ‘wp_robots_noindex’, 10 );
remove_filter( ‘wp_robots’, ‘wp_robots_noindex_embeds’, 10 );
remove_filter( ‘wp_robots’, ‘wp_robots_noindex_search’, 10 );
remove_filter( ‘wp_robots’, ‘wp_robots_max_image_preview_large’, 10 );
remove_all_filters( ‘wp_robots’ );

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

Thank you.

Hello,

To fix the noindex issue, we recommend following this guide without using the Health Check plugin:
https://rankmath.com/kb/check-plugin-conflicts/

You may need to disable/deactivate the plugins one by one manually and check which one is conflicting with Rank Math’s robots meta to noindex.

Regarding the Use Focus Keyword in the URL test, you may need to skip or safely ignore the test since you’re using a custom structure.

You may also use this filter to disable that test on your site:
https://rankmath.com/kb/disable-seo-content-tests/#keyword-in-permalink

Hope that helps.

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.