Blog posts not getting indexed

  • Resolved ibl92

    (@isabella92)


    5 years, 2 months ago

    Hello!

    For some reason Google Search Console is telling me that all of my blog posts have a noindex tag. When I look in the HTML code I can not find a “noindex” tag though. However I can tell that my blog posts are not getting indexed in Google so I need to solve it. Right now I am looking for a way to change the noindex tag on my blog posts.

    In SEO Yoast – Under search appearance – I have the “show posts in search results” to ON.

    I read that you should be able to change the noindex-tag on individual posts in the advanced metabox. I do not not have this advanced metabox that includes changing the noindex-tag though. This despite having “Security – no advanced settings for authors” set to OFF.
    I tried following these steps but I still can not see an advanced metabox: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/how-do-i-noindex-urls/

    The only things I can see in the metabox on an individual post are:

    Standard for post, at the moment: yes
    Should search engines follow links on this post? Yes
    Meta-robots advanced – Standard for the whole website: None
    Canonical URL: empty

    Is the more advanced metabox a premium thing?

    I really really must get these pages indexed but I can’t find a way to edit this. Can you give me some advice on how to solve this?

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • MariusG

    (@marius_codeinwp)

    Hi @isabella92,

    We do not recommend adding the nofollow tag on pages that have internal links only, unless they are all leading to pages that you do not want to be indexed. For example, if your checkout page still has links in the header/footer (or other useful internal links), then it would be best to allow Google to follow them.

    We hope to have cleared things up for you.

    Thread Starter ibl92

    (@isabella92)

    I have another question.. this might not be the right place but I hope it’s okay that I ask ??

    OK so I went through all of our wordpress pages and noticed that we had a lot of template pages published even though we were not using them. They were also being indexed my google I think. So I went ahead and turned them into drafts. I thought I would keep them as drafts just in case I want to use a specific template one day.

    Now that they are unpublished, they don’t exist on the site right and cannot be indexed? ??

    I am wondering if I should make /my-account to a draft page as well since we are not using that function yet, although we might in the future.

    Thread Starter ibl92

    (@isabella92)

    I have another question.. this might not be the right place but I hope it’s okay that I ask ??

    OK so I went through all of our wordpress pages and noticed that we had a lot of template pages published even though we were not using them. They were also being indexed my google I think. So I went ahead and turned them into drafts. I thought I would keep them as drafts just in case I want to use a specific template one day.

    Now that they are unpublished, they don’t exist on the site right and cannot be indexed? ??

    I am wondering if I should make /my-account to a draft page as well since we are not using that function yet, although we might in the future.

    Thread Starter ibl92

    (@isabella92)

    Sorry I was suppose to write that question in a different support forum. Thanks fora ll of your help ??

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