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Hello, my website was marked as noindex, according to the original code below. I have checked RankMath dashboard, 1. Global Meta, Robots Meta, I already selected ‘index’, and I go to the page setting, also ‘index’ was selected.
Could you please check why? Thanks a lot.
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Hello, we apologize for the issue you are facing with the noindex setting on your website. It sounds like you’ve already taken some important steps to resolve this by checking both the global settings and the individual page settings in Rank Math.
Here are a few additional things you can check:
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Rank Math Metabox: Ensure that the Rank Math Metabox is correctly configured for the specific post or page. Open the post/page in the WordPress Editor, and check if the Robots Meta is set to Index in the Advanced Tab of the Rank Math Metabox. If it’s set to No Index, change it to Index and update the post.
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Titles & Meta Settings: Double-check your Titles & Meta settings in Rank Math to ensure that no default settings are overriding your individual page settings. Navigate to Rank Math SEO → Titles & Meta and review each section to confirm that they are set to your preference.
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Robots.txt File: Make sure that your robots.txt file does not contain any disallow rules that might be preventing indexing. You can check this under Rank Math SEO → General Settings → Edit Robots.txt.
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Global Settings: Lastly, ensure that the option to discourage search engines from indexing your site is not enabled in your WordPress settings. Check this under Settings → Reading and make sure the Discourage search engines from indexing this site option is unchecked.
If you have checked all these settings and the issue persists, please reply to this ticket, and a human agent from the Rank Math Support team will take over and assist you further. Thank you for raising this concern!
Sources:
Why Google Hasn’t Indexed Your Post, Page, and/or Website? » Rank Math
Fix Excluded by NoIndex Tag – Google Search Console Status » Rank MathHello,
Thank you for contacting us and bringing your concern to our attention.
It is a pretty common mistake to open the page source and search for a noindex tag to see if the page is marked as noindex or not.
Rank Math offers a No Index and No Follow option in the admin menu bar, which could show up in the page’s source code when logged in.
The actual noindex tag will be added like this:
<meta robots="noindex">Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
Thank you.Hello,
We’ve checked your site, and your pages are already set to index in the page’s source code. Also, your sitemap and robots.txt are working fine.
Please clear your website’s cache and revalidate the issue in your Google Search Console account and give Google some time to recrawl your site.
Looking forward to helping you.
Hello,
Your pages are already set with the index tag, although none of the pages is indexed on Google search when we used the
siteoperator to search.To assist us in further investigation, could you please provide a screenshot of your Google Search Console account’s Page Indexing Report?
To share the screenshot, you can use a tool like https://imgur.com/. This will allow us to better understand the situation and provide the appropriate support.
Meanwhile, we have provided some guides you can follow to ensure your website keeps showing up on Google search results: https://rankmath.com/kb/google-index/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YYecHEIwMsPlease note that, according to Google, crawling and indexing can take anywhere from a few hours to a few days/weeks. Be patient and monitor progress using the URL Inspection tool.
Hope this helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
Thank you.
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