META robots=noindex

  • Just installed this (latest version), it adds a META robots=noindex to every page regardless of the settings. What SEO app forces all pages to NOT be indexed, probably the most counter-productive in the world! Hit me up when you have fixed that glaring bug and I’ll consider installing it again…

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  • Hi @leeingram01,

    Out of the box, Yoast SEO doesn’t add noindex to every page. This means that there’s either been a plugin conflict or a setting gone wrong. We’d love to help you resolve that quickly, as we totally agree that that’s not what an SEO plugin should do.

    Can you please reinstall the plugin and check the following settings:

    • Settings > Reading > Uncheck Discourage search engines from indexing this site
    • SEO > Titles & Metas > Post Types > Check that every post type is set to Index
    • SEO > Titles & Metas > Taxonomies > Check that every post type is set to Index

    Are they all set correctly?

    Thanks,
    Taco

    Hi there.
    Having the same issue and checking all the recomendations by @tacoverdo (there were OK but there’s still the noindex/follow in my index), I found this

    https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/562#issuecomment-188411768

    add_filter('wpseo_robots', 'yoast_no_home_noindex', 999);
    function yoast_no_home_noindex($string= "") {
        if (!is_singular('position')) {
        $string= "index,follow";
    }
    return $string;
}

    Hope helps someone.

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