Database Description Not Visible to Search Engines
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I installed Yoast SEO as you suggested and something called Better Search as it is supposed to be able to search databases. The only thing Better Search and Google can find is the product name or a fragment of it. The description field is invisible to search engines. Better Search tells me this is because of a “no follow” tag being inserted. I am allowing indexing of everything in the site. I saw a post about Yoast and Taxonomies but it was very old and for a very old version of Yoast.
Bottom line…all my important data about my products is in the description field. If that is not searchable I cannot use the plugin.
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Hi John,
Sorry I had not realised that you were the same person I have been emailing and helping recently.
I can completely understand that you would want all this information to show up on Google as well as in the site search.
Let me give you a little comfort and then we can work on resolving this completely.
Google will index the pages including the information in the description because they see the whole page on your website.
For example, I did a search on google of “site:healthysolutions4living.info H2 blockers” to force it to only return results from your site and you can clearly see the text from your description field.
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The comment from Better Search about “no follow” is not really relevant – all “no follow” tells Google to do is not to follow the link in your ‘personal recommendation’ button to the affiliate site. It does not impact what Google will index on your site (and is best practice from Google).
I will install Better Search on my test site and see if I can resolve this for you or come up with further suggestions.
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