NoIndex on many pages for no reason. HELP

We checked on your site https://arosier.com/ and do see it is being indexed in a Google search here. Also, we reviewed your robots.txt at https://arosier.com/robots.txt and there is nothing in it preventing the site from being indexed, nor did we find any robots meta tags in the source code set to ‘noindex’ on either https://arosier.com/work/casey-neistat-beme/ or https://arosier.com/work/seconds-maxzwell/

There are a number of ways you can set pages to noindex, so we would recommend checking all of them. We would recommend checking to make sure the robots meta tag is NOT set to ‘noindex’ for the page/post in Yoast SEO, and you can check this setting by performing the following actions:

Go to the Edit screen for a page/post
Scroll down to the Yoast Metabox
Click on the ‘Advanced’ tab
For ‘Allow search engines to show this Page in search results?’ make sure this is set to ‘Yes’
Note (setting this value to Yes will set meta robots to ‘index’ and setting No would set meta robots to ‘noindex)

In addition, you can set entire content types to be indexed/noindexed in the SEO>Search Appearance. You control whether a content type is indexed/noindexed by setting ‘Show in search results’ to ‘Yes’ for index, and ‘No’ for noindex. We also have a guide on this here: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/how-do-i-noindex-urls/

?If you are still receiving the warning after confirming that the pages in question are not set to noindex, we ask that you please check your site in Google Mobile tester and use the Fetch the Current Status to see whether there are any indexing issue reported. This guide explains more: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/your-site-isnt-indexable/.

Hi @devnihil

I really appreciate you writing me back and answering comprehensively.

I believe I found the issue. I’ll write it here in case other people end up struggling with this as well.

During my site build, I discouraged search engines from being able to see the site via WP Dashboard > Settings > Reading (so not to crawl duplicative content). Since you’ve confirmed there’s no ‘noindex’ tags on my pages currently, it must be that when Google last crawled my site, there were ‘noindex’ tags on the page. I have since requested a re-crawl of those 80+ pages. It’s been a week and Google has still not recrawled, but I presume it takes some time.

Would that reasoning also make sense to you?

Alex

While the reason makes sense, you’ll need to wait after requesting Google Search Console to crawl them again and hopefully, will be fixed after Google recrawl them correctly.

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