[Plugin: WordPress SEO by Yoast] Is the Plugin adding an xhtml noindex meta tag to the RSS Feed?

I found this in the changelog for version 1.0.3:

RSS feeds are now always noindex, followed. No search engine should ever list an RSS feed as a result in the resultpages.

Please return this as an option to let us choose what we want. It appears that sites like blogsearch.google.com may require an indexable RSS feed to list results.

I manually removed two lines from the files to do this for me. I think I got the right ones. I am putting them here for my own sake, just so I can remember where I found them and what I did… and in case anyone else wants to remove this also.

I removed the following two lines from wordpress-seo/frontend/class-frontend.php

add_action('rss_head', array(&$this, 'noindex_feed') );
add_action('rss2_head', array(&$this, 'noindex_feed') );

@jeremyers1

As you said to remove

<xhtml:meta xmlns:xhtml="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="robots" content="noindex" />

from feeds we need to remove these two lines:

add_action('rss_head', array(&$this, 'noindex_feed') );
add_action('rss2_head', array(&$this, 'noindex_feed') );

But even after doing this nothing happened it still shows

You will need to publish a new blog post to get the lines removed. Publish a new post, and then check your feed again. The nofollow should be gone then.

thanks….now I can see that there is no “noindex” commend in feeds