No Index at homepage

@hetrijkvandekeizer

We understand you are seeing a meta tag with noindex on your site and obviously, you want to have your site indexed. Let’s see what might be going on.

We checked your homepage and could see the noindex as well, so let’s point you at a few things that might cause this to happen. First, as your homepage is a page you’ve created to be set as the homepage, please go to Pages in your left menu and find your homepage, click Edit and scroll down to the Yoast metabox and click the Advanced section open to check the first option in there. It should be set to Yes, index. Is that the currently selected option? If not, change it to Yes. Then re-check if the noindex is still present on the homepage.

Condition2: The issue persists.

Often, we see problems occur in combination with another plugin or theme. The fastest way to rule out any conflict, is to deactivate all non-Yoast plugins and switch to a standard theme like Twenty Twenty.

Please test this on your development or staging site, if you have one. If not, we recommend using the Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin. This plugin has a troubleshooting mode, which does not affect normal visitors to your site.

If you’re unfamiliar with checking for conflicts, we’d like to point you to a step-by-step guide that will walk you through the process: How to check for plugin conflicts

We look forward to the results from above tests.

Hi Suwash,

Thank you for your comment.

The index is on in advanced options on the page. I deactivated all plugins and the problem was the yoast plugin, but now it is also the woocommerce plugin. So there is something going on. It’s definitely not the theme.

Aaaah insane!!!

Ok I’m gonna check now for woocommerce and noindex.

Thanks!

Hi,

Well it appears to be woocommerce now. I checked the forums, but my hosting partner already tried the suggestions which didnt solve the problem.

If you have a suggestion how to solve this? I’m clueless…

Hi @hetrijkvandekeizer

Upon checking your website homepage again, it still indeed has the ‘noindex’ meta robots tag.

Since you’ve mentioned that even when deactivating the Yoast SEO plugin, the ‘noindex’ tag still appears, we can rule out that it is being caused by our plugin.

We suggest that you perform a conflict check, starting with a default WP theme, and then enable your plugins, one by one, and then your preferred theme, until you are able to locate the plugin or theme that might be generating this ‘noindex’ tag. We hope this helps point you in the right direction – https://yoast.com/help/how-to-check-for-plugin-conflicts/

Hi Michael,

Thanks you for your reply. I did the check with plugins and the health troubleshooting plugin. The first time I did this, the Yoast was the problem. Now it’s the woocommerce.

I started a new topic, hopefully woocommerce can help me out.

Kind regards,

Jojanneke

Hi,

If you perform a conflict check and start with a default WP theme (such as TwentyTwenty) and only activate the Yoast SEO plugin, if the issue doesn’t occur, then the issue likely isn’t being caused by the Yoast SEO plugin. If you then activate WooCommerce, and then the ‘noindex’ appears on the homepage, you can likely confirm it’s being caused by WooCommerce, and you might have to adjust some settings or contact them for further support.

We’ll be setting this forum thread to resolved. Please do feel free to re-open or create a new topic should you have any other issues with the Yoast SEO plugin. Thanks!