Problem in woocommerce parent categories

  • Resolved maegllin

    (@maegllin)


    1 month, 1 week ago

    Greetings everyone,
    I think I have a small issue with SEO YOAST and Woocommerce. For some reason in the Main categories of woocommerce I get in the source code <meta name=’robots’ content=’noindex, follow’ /> . Although in all child categories <meta name=’robots’ content=’index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1′ /> something that’s ok.

    Why the parent categories contain <meta name=’robots’ content=’noindex, follow’ /> ??

    WP, Woocommerce & SEO Yoast are all updated to their latest versions.

    Also I’ve already check if there is something in functions.php that may result in that strange behaviour but nothing.

    I also did a check to disable seo yoast. When I did that the <meta name=’robots’ content=’noindex, follow’ /> was vanished from the shortcode, so I think that something’s going wrong with yoast.

    Any ideas or workaround

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  • Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    Hello @maegllin

    Thanks for reaching out; I was able to replicate what you described.

    Edit the product category, /product-category/kathistiko/ from WordPress > Products > Categories. Scroll down to the Yoast SEO meta box and ensure that for the option, “Allow search engines to show this content in search results?“, you choose YES. Next, check the robots meta tag again in the page source.

    Plugin Support Mushrit Shabnam

    (@611shabnam)

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    Thread Starter maegllin

    (@maegllin)

    Greetings again and sorry for delay.

    In /product-category/kathistiko/ the Allow search engines to show this content in search results? option was and is set to Yes. It was the 1st thing I’ve checked to be honest. Although the issue still exists.

    Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    On checking /product_cat-sitemap.xml/, it has /product-category/kathistiko/?listed. So, I doubt <meta name='robots' content='noindex, follow' /> is coming from Yoast SEO. When any content such as the product category is set to noindex it won’t be in the sitemap.

    Another plugin maybe responsible for the noindex tag. 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.

    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

    If you feel uncomfortable doing this yourself or if this does not solve your issue, our Yoast SEO Premium plugin comes with one year of (technical) support.

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