NoIndex in GSC But Not in Source Code

Hello @davesmith586

Thanks for reaching out.

I checked the page source, and indeed there are no noindex tags:
<meta name=’robots’ content=’index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1′ />

But when I performed a site search, strangely, there are no search results.

I’m not familiar with the tool Hugo’s URL Viewer and not sure how it’s pulling data different from what’s in the page source.

I’d recommend adding your site to Google Search Console and submitting your sitemap.

• https://yoast.com/add-website-to-google-search-console/
• https://yoast.com/help/submit-sitemap-search-engines/

Do share with us any notifications regarding indexing reported by the Google Search Console

Thanks @maybellyne.

But I did everything my website has GSC connected and submit sitemap too.

The thing is sitemap also fetching 1000+ urls and my website only have 25-30.

I don’t know much about Huga url viewer, but it shows me some kind of clothing website and seems like Google bots is tracking something different.

My website is not on Google still GSC showing impression I don’t know how is it possible

https://prnt.sc/AOlqV-mdvLO3

https://prnt.sc/_H2Y_AUh8F23

• This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by davesmith586.

Thanks for sharing the screenshots, @davesmith586

It could be that your site has been a target of internal search spam or hacked. For instance, I see URLs like https://lahvac.expert/Handbags-Wallets-orfy or https://lahvac.expert/Handbags-Wallets-gijlpq-87955-koeth/, which throw a 404 error. You should speak with your web hosting provider about a possible hack and help clean up the site URLs.

Also, use the URL Inspection Tool in Google Search Console for information about Google’s indexed version of a specific page, and also allows you to test whether a URL might be indexable.

Thanks @maybellyne I tried everything but still same error, And why GSC showing impressions and clicks everything As not even a single page is on search result

Hello @davesmith586 have you reached out to your web hosting provider about a possible hack that may have occured? They’ll also be able to help clean up the site URLs.

Hi @maybellyne @davesmith586,

This might be coming from the Yoast Plugin core code, which seems to include in the file named ‘ndexable-presentation.php‘, the below configuration:

protected function get_base_robots() {
	return [
		'index'             => ( $this->model->is_robots_noindex === true ) ? 'noindex' : 'index',
		'follow'            => ( $this->model->is_robots_nofollow === true ) ? 'nofollow' : 'follow',
		'max-snippet'       => 'max-snippet:-1',
		'max-image-preview' => 'max-image-preview:large',
		'max-video-preview' => 'max-video-preview:-1',
	];
}

Apparently, it seems as the Bing search engine does NOT respect the ‘-1’ value as no limit, but as an error. It states for it:

Meta robots tag contains restrictive robots directives
- 1 instance found

Which comes from the below line added to the website code:

<meta name='robots' content='index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1' />