Hello,
I’m sorry to hear that you are facing issues with the noindex tag on your homepage after migrating from Yoast to Rank Math. If you have followed the instructions provided and still experiencing problems, I recommend checking the following:
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Homepage Settings: Make sure you have selected a specific page as your homepage under WordPress Dashboard > Settings > Readings > Your homepage displays. Without setting a specific page as your homepage, you won’t be able to add focus keywords to it using Rank Math.
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Rank Math Metabox: Ensure that the Rank Math Metabox is available for your homepage. You can find this by opening the post/page in the WordPress Editor and checking for the Rank Math SEO icon or scrolling down to the bottom of the page to find the Rank Math Metabox.
If the issue persists, please consider reaching out to the Rank Math support team for further assistance. You can contact them through their support page: Rank Math Support.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention, and we appreciate your patience while we work to resolve this issue for you.
Kind regards,
Rank Math Support Team
Sources:
Is Your Site the Victim of Internal Site Search Spam? » Rank Math
Fix Excluded by NoIndex Tag – Google Search Console Status » Rank Math
How to Disable All Rank Math Generated SEO Tags » Rank Math
Hello,
Thank you for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
Could you please share your website URL with us so that we can check the issue further for you?
Meanwhile, please try to follow the steps mentioned in this guide and see if that works for you: https://rankmath.com/kb/excluded-by-noindex-tag/
Let us know how it goes. Looking forward to helping you.
Thank you.
http://www.sape.hr
In meantime i switch back tp yoast because of noindex tag. Reach me and I will switch to rank math so you could see whar happend in code. On yoast everything ok, without any seo tool fine on Rank math noindex , folow.
M
just rank math
<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex, follow”/>
just yoast
<meta name=’robots’ content=’max-image-preview:large, index,follow’ />
bouth deactivated
<meta name=’robots’ content=’max-image-preview:large’ />
all settings checkt 5 times, one by one…nothing help…
m
Hello,
Please activate Rank Math on the site so we can check this for you.
Looking forward to helping you.
Thank you.
Rank math is active now, Yoast disabled
Hello,
We can see that the page is indeed set with the noindex tag.
The indexation of your homepage is controlled by several settings in WordPress and Rank Math. You need to make sure that these settings are configured correctly to allow search engines to index your homepage.
To check and adjust these settings, please follow these steps:
- Go to WordPress Dashboard > Settings > Reading > Search engine visibility and make sure that the Discourage search engines from indexing this site is unticked
- Go to Rank Math > Titles & Meta > Homepage > Homepage Robots Meta and make sure the Index checkbox is enabled
- If you are using a static page as your homepage, go to WordPress Dashboard > Pages and edit the page that you have set as your homepage. On the edit screen, scroll down to the Rank Math metabox and click on the Advanced tab. Here, you will see a dropdown menu that says “Robots Meta”. Make sure that this menu is set to “Index”. This will also enable the index option for your homepage.
We hope this helps you fix the issue with the indexation of your homepage. However, if the issue persists, we might need to take a closer look at your website and settings. Please follow these steps:
- Edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress and FTP logins in the Sensitive Data section. This is a secure section that only our support staff can access.
- Make sure you take a complete backup of your website before sharing the information with us.
- If you prefer, you can use this 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 also use this plugin to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any): https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/
We appreciate your cooperation and patience.
Thank you for choosing Rank Math.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
I shared my login link….did you find something?
Hello,
Your homepage is also your account page for WooCommerce and that is causing the robots meta settings to be overridden to a noindex because the account page doesn’t hold SEO value so we set it to noindex.
We added the following filter to force the index to the account page so the homepage is now correctly set to be indexed:
add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/robots', function( $robots ) {
if( is_account_page() ) {
$robots['index'] = 'index';
}
return $robots;
});
Hope this helps clarify the situation.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.
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.
