‘noindex’ ‘nofollow’

Hi Frogger,

Thank you for getting in touch with Yoast.

We understand that Google Search Console is reporting soft 404 error for some posts.

We gather that you’ve already added the ‘noindex, nofollow’ tags to these posts. We also recommend excluding them from your sitemap. You can learn more about that here: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/how-to-customize-the-sitemap-index/

Once you’ve completed these steps, you can go to your Google Search Console and mark the errors as fixed. Google should stop crawling these pages eventually.

You can also do nothing and leave them as 404s as they do not harm your SEO. You’ll find more information on that here: https://yoast.com/thoughts-404-not-found/

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Thanks very much.

Actually, this isn’t on crawl error, this is on coverage error.
Google says they find these page on my google maps but they cannot find the index.

About sitemap, my problem is these noindex and nofollow are pages, I cannot exclude whole page category from the sitemap.

I see these pages still on the sitemap. Can I manually delete pages from sitemap?

Thanks

Hi,

You identified several issues. I have responded to them below.

A. Google says they find these page on my google maps but they cannot find the index.

This is an issue? Are you expecting to find these pages in Google’s index? If so, can you provide an example URL that highlights the issue?

B.About sitemap, my problem is these noindex and nofollow are pages, I cannot exclude whole page category from the sitemap.

It is expected that if you mark a page as noindex and nofollow, Google will not index the page or follow the links on it. However, it may crawl it and report what it found to you. You can then make a judgement call on what to do about it (if it is expected, you can ignore it).

C. I see these pages still on the sitemap. Can I manually delete pages from sitemap?

We are confused. Did you mark a page as noindex, nofollow and that page is still appearing on the sitemap? If so, can you provide an example URL that highlights this issue.

Thanks

The pages that aren’t noindex and no follow arent index, which is perfect.

The only problem is google send me a big report of error because of theses pages arent index. I already validate it twice, and error reduces to less than half. But it still indicates me many noindex pages on coverage error.

There is no error everything is working at it should but googles send me an error report. Because of it I thought maybe I could change the sitemap manually.

If the pages that are marked as noindex are not included in your sitemap and the pages in question are intentionally set to noindex than you can ignore the warning that the page cannot be indexed. If you are receiving a warning regarding a page that was submitted as part of the sitemap that is marked as noindex can you please provide a URL of the page and sitemap so we can review this further?

The pages in question are intentionally set to noindex and they still on my sitemap.

Do you have an email or another way for i send my link privately?

Thanks

The forums do not offer a way to send links privately at this time.

If you prefer email, we include email support with the purchase of Yoast SEO Premium.

Ok. No problem. Thanks

It’s possible that’s an issue with WooCommerce which independently set noindex for pages: my-account, cart and checkout. You can use slack to send messages.

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