Todd kindly DON'T close tickets as "resolved" lol

#1489
  • Resolved Mygsdorg
    Rank Math free

    I open this now, else I would have added to my other post:
    I cannot click anything other than “not resolved”, sorry. I am writing back here because: Do you really mean right now RM users must manually edit each and every individual post, page, and custom post type and tick the six boxes for each if it isn’t meant for indexing?

    Remember, I showed that currently RM needlessly/wrongly sets the index meta tag (which is default anyway).

    I can’t believe you meant we must visit thousands of pages to set those tickmarks??
    There MUST be a quicker/easier way? If not at front-end I don’t mind to do it at backend/in database.
    But you need to please say how we can bulk-remove pages from being indexed that aren’t meant to be indexed!

    PS for others/newbies who read this: It is a common misunderstanding to want to have all pages indexed: Read Brian Dean, Neil Patel, and others: ONLY ever index pages that you seek to market to NEW visitors.
    Every other page, post, etc should be set to No-index: menu pages, homepage stuff, contact stuff, membership pages, pages you only link to per email autoresponder etc etc.
    Else you water down your rankings with stuff you don’t need indexed!
    Said it now. 😉

    Hence why every (other?) SEO plugin worth its value allows to bulk-exclude post id’s from indexing. Or rather: specifically to SET “Index”, but RM can’t do this because it default sets ALL pages to robot meta index…

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  • Hello,

    The custom robots meta value for specific posts is in fact stored in the rank_math_robots custom field in the database. The wp_postmeta is the table that contains such custom fields for the posts, and you need to add (or edit) only one row for each post (not six) – the meta_value is stored as serialized data. So, if you want to enable only the “Noindex” checkbox, you need to insert the following meta_value for each post: a:1:{i:0;s:7:"noindex";}, with the rank_math_robots for meta_name and the post ID for post_id. Noindex + Nofollow would look like: a:2:{i:0;s:7:"noindex";i:1;s:8:"nofollow";}.

    Hope that helps.

    Hi,
    there is now a detailed solution here: https://support.rankmath.com/ticket/solved-must-dos-to-prevent-rankmath-seo-contradictions/
    in case anyone else finds this (by myself) badly named thread

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