Hello,
I’m sorry to hear about the issue you are facing with Google not indexing your site despite having everything set to index.
To troubleshoot the ‘noindex’ detected in ‘robots’ meta tag error, you can follow these steps:
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Check Page Source: Open the page source of the URL that is not being indexed and verify if the ‘noindex’ robots meta tag is present. If it is, you need to identify if it was set correctly or incorrectly.
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Ensure Sitemap Accessibility: Check if Google can access your website’s sitemap. Use a tool like httpstatus.io to verify if your sitemap is accessible. If not, you can refer to our tutorial to fix this issue.
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Check Sitemap Cache: Verify if your sitemap is being cached, which might affect recent changes. You can exclude your sitemap from caching by following our tutorial.
If after following these steps the issue persists, please reply to this ticket, and a human agent from the Rank Math Support team will assist you further.
Thank you for reaching out with your concern.
Sources:
Using Rank Math’s ‘Quick Actions’ Admin Menu Item
Why Google Hasn’t Indexed Your Post, Page, and/or Website? » Rank Math
How to Fix Submitted URL Marked ‘NoIndex’ Error » Rank Math
Analyzing Your Site’s SEO with Rank Math’s SEO Analysis Tool
Hello,
Thank you for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
Please check the Advanced tab in the Rank Math SEO meta box of your homepage and make sure it is set to index: https://rankmath.com/kb/advanced-tab/
If the issue persists, then we might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress & FTP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.
Please do take a complete backup of your website before sharing the information with us.
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/
Let us know how it goes. Looking forward to helping you.
Thank you.
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Hello,
We’ve checked your site using the Health Check Plugin, and seems like your pages are heavily cached only that’s why they are set to noindex.
You may now check your pages robots meta tags as well as we have already cleared the cache.
Moreover, you are using Squirrly SEO plugin which conflicts with Rank Math as they provide similar features. We recommend disabling it to avoid conflicts like this one.
Looking forward to helping you.
That’s great! Thank you very much.
Hello,
You’re welcome.
We are super happy that this issue is already resolved. 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.
