RM not writing canonical into source code

#96322
  • Resolved Rob Holmes
    Rank Math free

    Hi – I installed RM on our staging site today but for some reason I can’t see the canonical URL’s in the source code and can’t see the option to turn them on and off in the settings.

    I tried adding a manual url at page level but this does not appear either.

    Any ideas what might be happening please?

    Thanks,
    Rob

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  • Just as a heads up, I’ve re-run the wizard and it’s not appeared.

    I’ve spent a couple of hours systematically going through and tweaking settings and nothing has worked.

    Loving the RM tool though!

    Cheers,

    Rob

    Hello

    Thank you for contacting the support and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

    The Canonical URLs won’t be displayed on websites where a NoIndex tag is added. This is done in accoedance with Google’s requirements.

    You can test the same by making the site indexed for a minute and then check the source code.

    Hope that helps.

    Hi – I’ll need to check with our dev tomorrow – however I unticked noindex in both RM and in WordPress itself (in Reading) and it still has: <meta name=”robots” content=”nofollow, noindex, noarchive, noimageindex, nosnippet”/> in the code. This looks like RM code – however the code has been generated with Index checked.

    Cheers,
    Rob

    OK – I’ve found the issue.

    Although I had ticked Index in RM AND unchecked the box in Reading for putting off Search engines, the settings didn’t change at page level, I found a further setting at each page level and whilst I am 99.9% sure we didn’t go in and tick them on every page, they didn’t follow the global setting to allow search engines again. Something worth remembering.

    As soon as I went in at page level > advanced and unticked the boxes in there the canonical link appeared in the code.

    Is there a way to flag it up that it’s local override to the page?

    Cheers,

    Rob

    Hello,

    I am sorry but currently there is no way to update the noindex/index meta in bulk with Rank math.

    You marked this as resolved, do you wish to close the ticket?

    If you have any further question(s), please let us know. Thank you.

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