Tags disabled but wrong tags

Hello @suygenneris

Thanks for reaching out about setting your tags to noindex. For each tag, edit the tag and scroll down to the advanced tab in the Yoast SEO meta box. For the option, Allow search engines to show this Tag in search results?, choose NO.

Hi @maybellyne

If I edit each tag the option Allow search engines to show this Tag in search results is set to NO.

Otherwise my tag pages are being indexed.

Thanks!

Thanks for following up, though I’m not sure what you mean.

If you edit each tag and Allow search engines to show this Tag in search results is set to NO, there should be a noindex tag. If that’s not the case, please share a tag URL that’s being indexed.

Hi again, thanks for your reply.

Per sample these are the settings for my tag “award”:

https://privatebin.net/?57e18a6f1eff881e#71jxUr8mUfrS5zkjQr83iud4e2fhsf1c4ACcDwYv19Kb

And I have the same settings for all my tags.

I would like to share the url where the tag is indexed. I have some way to post url in private mode?

Thanks.

There’s no way to share a URL in private. You can use the same mode you shared the screenshot

I think you can get url here:

https://privatebin.net/?a324a6bf8b463d92#3bQTZxaNQ8w5vhjfwyWzLoyAFLAVGCnWbutBghxm55zp

Thanks!

The screenshots are very helpful, @suygenneris. I see that you have chosen not to Show tags in search results, so you don’t have a tag sitemap. You have also specifically chosen not to Allow search engines to show this Tag in search results? for the Award tag, but I don’t see a noindex tag in the page source.

I checked your robots.txt file, and you have a disallow directive for /tag/. And when I ran the tag URL through Google’s rich result test tool, Google reported that URL is not available to Google. It means Google could detect your noindex. Not seeing the noindex tag in the page source might be an aesthetic issue.

Can you edit your robots.txt file and leave the disallow directive as blank?

I edited the robots.txt leaving the disallow directive as blank.

Thanks!

Thanks, I can confirm that change but noindex still doesn’t show. 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-Two.

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Yes, I think it is a setting from the theme.

I will check on the staging website.

Thanks a lot @maybellyne for all your help!