UPDATED - How-to Fix Excluded by ‘NOINDEX’ Tag - Google Search Console Page Indexing

[@RankYa]

How to find the culprit cause of noindex issue? First make sure you are looking at this www.rankya.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/search-console-noindex-report.png Then use URL Inspection tool (TEST Live URL) and look here www.rankya.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/search-console-URL-Inspection-report.png Still have issues, comment on www.rankya.com

[@TravelItineraryDestinations]

In my case, the problem of no index is the tag/-----/feed I clicked the command F and typed noindex, no index, and "no index" nothing came out of it. But in the More Info box, I can see the noindex.

[@RankYa]

I think your website is built on WordPress! If this is the case, then, for FEED URLs you need not worry about *NOINDEX* issues shown in Google Search Console. If you do not want Google Search Console to _not_ show issues related to WordPress *feed URLs* then 1 = Simply ensure that the website map (Sitemap) you've submitted to Google Search Console is setup correctly (as in, XML sitemap only contain the URLs you want Google to index). 2 = create a robots.txt file and add disallow directive to _feed URLs_ for example: User-agent: * Disallow: /feed/ Disallow: /*/feed/ this will ensure you no longer see excluded by "noindex" issues in Search Console for WordPress feed URLs. Because you should not waste time with trying to fix noindex errors for WordPress feed URLs.

[@dombarton2483]

Awesome video!

[@RankYa]

Thanks Dom :-)

[@Luffy-iz5di]

In osclass search page I don't need to index so I updated robots.txt disallow for search but Google search console taking search url to crawl and it's showing in crawled - currently not indexed and I also mentioned no index tag .what should I do

[@RankYa]

1. Check Sitemap you've submitted to ensure the correct URLs are in the sitemap. 2. *REMOVE robots.txt directive first* 3. wait till Google updates (as in sees noindex tag) and removes the URL from its index (you can confidently delete the currect sitemap and then re-submit to speed up the process). 4. ONLY then, you can now use robots.txt directive to block crawling of Googlebot. For your knowledge: the problem Google is having is = it is NOT seeing/obeying noindex directive on the web page because you are blocking crawl process through robots.txt

[@Luffy-iz5di]

@@RankYa Thankyou

[@donoiseagency]

Hello, thanks for this video. My question is: If in test live, the URL that Google said noindex and In test live is available to Google. What do I do?

[@RankYa]

Although I'm not 100% certain, I think in your case, all you need to do is identify *noindex* directive and simply remove it from the URL in question.

[@aiphunnuochonnonbo46]

When you create a product category, by default that category will automatically insert the noindex tag. If you want to index that category, you create a product for that category and it will automatically be indexed. I used to have the same problem. and it has been processed

[@MalcomMclean-b4c]

I am using Rankmath how do I fix it.

[@RankYa]

Depends, for entire section of WordPress, simply ensure *index* is selected rankmath.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Navigate-to-Titles-Meta.png at global level For individual URLs having noindex issues, navigate to the URL in question, edit, find RankMath settings and change noindex to index. Since you are using WordPress, triple make sure that you submit ONLY XML for parts of WordPress that has original/useful content (for example: blog-posts, pages, product URLs) the rest you can confidently ignore telling Google about (this will ensure you see what's important in Search Console, instead of unimportant errors). This means: in Google Search Console > Sitemaps > add sitemap post-sitemap.xml page-sitemap.xml (if eCommerce product-sitemap.xml) BUT NOT www.example.com/sitemap_index.xml (NOTE: in rare cases, a WordPress site may include custom post types with original content. In such cases, you would want those custom post types to be indexed by Google). For example: membership site, with Q&A section using custom post types.). *if you've already submitted sitemap_index.xml in Search Console? *Remove that sitemap* and _then add your new sitemap/s_ that you want Google to index. In terms of SEO and Google rankings, this means, URLs that have original/useful content. You can and should ignore TAG URLs, Date Archives etc. all of which are called placeholder content and most of these URLs will cause Page Indexing errors such as noindex issues. That is why it is important to submit the correct XML Sitemap in Search Console. I hope this helps.

[@Dwebgirl]

@@RankYa am using rank math's too,it seems the option isn't there Very bad,m uninstalling it .@rankmaths

[@bmd_videos]

Still can't find no index code 😢

[@RankYa]

First make sure you are looking at this www.rankya.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/search-console-noindex-report.png Then use URL Inspection tool (TEST Live URL) And look here www.rankya.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/search-console-URL-Inspection-report.png Still have issues, comment on www.rankya.com