No: ‘noindex’ detected in ‘robots’ meta tag

Hello,

We apologize for the issue you are facing with your pages not being indexed. It seems that Google is detecting a ‘noindex’ tag on your pages, which is preventing them from being indexed, even though you have the index option checked.

Here are some steps you can take to resolve this issue:

1. Check the Rank Math Metabox: Open the affected post/page in the WordPress Editor. In the Rank Math Metabox, go to the Advanced Tab and ensure that the Robots Meta is set to Index. If it is set to No Index, change it to Index and update the page.
   

2. Review Titles & Meta Settings: Navigate to Rank Math SEO → Titles & Meta and check if any default settings are applying a ‘noindex’ tag to your posts or pages. Adjust these settings as necessary.
   

3. Check Global Settings: Ensure that the global settings do not have the Discourage search engines from indexing this site option enabled. You can find this under WordPress Dashboard → Settings → Reading.
   

4. Inspect Robots.txt File: Make sure that your robots.txt file does not contain any disallow rules that might be blocking Google from crawling your pages. You can edit this in Rank Math under WordPress Dashboard → Rank Math SEO → General Settings → Edit Robots.txt.
   

After making these changes, give Google some time to re-crawl your site and check back in Google Search Console for updates on the indexing status.

If you continue to experience issues, please reply to this ticket, and a human agent from the Rank Math Support team will assist you further.

Thank you for raising this concern!

Sources:
How to Fix Indexing Issues in Google Search Console » Rank Math
Fix Excluded by NoIndex Tag – Google Search Console Status » Rank Math

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math support.

Please share some of the affected URLs with us so we can investigate this for you.

We look forward to hearing from you.