Rank Math adding no index tag in the woocommerce categories

Hello @nick1999,

Thank you for contacting the support and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

Can you please share the URL where you are getting the error so we can assist better?

Also, did you refer to the following article and ensure that the NoIndexed is not enabled for WooCommerce’s categories?
https://rankmath.com/kb/titles-and-meta/#num-23-4-category-archives-robots-meta-custom-settings

Looking forward to helping you.

Following below are some categories link:

https://www.realppe.co.za/product-category/gloves/sterile/latex-powdered/

https://www.realppe.co.za/product-category/gloves/non-sterile/latex-powdered-non-sterile/large-latex-powdered-non-sterile/

https://www.realppe.co.za/product-category/gloves/non-sterile/exam-vinyl-powder-free/

https://www.realppe.co.za/product-category/gloves/non-sterile/latex-powdered-non-sterile/

There are a total of 36 categories that are facing the same issue,
I am waiting for your reply
Thanks

Hello @nick1999

Thank you for sending the links.

Please check the source code of this link:
view-source:https://www.realppe.co.za/product-category/gloves/non-sterile/exam-vinyl-powder-free/

You would notice that the page is set to Index.

However, the following page (and others like it):
view-source:https://www.realppe.co.za/product-category/gloves/non-sterile/latex-powdered-non-sterile/

Have a NoIndex tag added to them so Google does not penalize your website with thin content pages.

As soon as you assign any product to those categories, those categories will add an Index meta tag to it.

If you want to turn off that feature, which we do not recommend, then please follow this video screencast:
https://www.realppe.co.za/wp-admin/admin.php?page=rank-math-options-titles#setting-panel-global
https://i.rankmath.com/WKPyMy

Hope that clears the confusion and helps.

Hi,

this category:https://www.realppe.co.za/product-category/gloves/non-sterile/exam-vinyl-powder-free/ .google search console shows that this has been marked as noindex and excluded this category from indexing. Why is Google doing this if the category has not contained noindex tag?

Hello @nick1999

Can you please follow these steps?
1. Flush the Sitemap cache by following this video screencast:
https://i.rankmath.com/xXXhDt

2. Exclude the Sitemap files of the Rank Math plugin in your caching plugin. The cache could be via a plugin or from the server. For plugins or Cloudflare, please follow this article:
https://rankmath.com/kb/exclude-sitemaps-from-caching/

That should fix the issue. Please give Google a week to re-check your website. Please let us know if that does not. We are here to assist. Thank you.