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Hi guys,
Need some advice. On this new site, asiamluxe.com I’m seeing errors in google search console about google not finding the page or indexing it but not listing it.
In searching the page source code I see this inside in a style:
.wpseo-score-icon.noindex {
background-color:#1e8cbe
}I’m not sure where this is coming from, perhaps yoast but I think maybe it was there before yoast plugin was added.
In your experience would this code trip up google and have it not display the page in search?
I’m a little befuddled because this is the same thee and plugins I always use.
If that’s the likely culprit how to edit it out safely?
Thanks so much.
Hey tonyiatridis,
Thank you for the inquiry.
The robots meta tag of the home page is correctly set to index and follow, which means that the page or the site is indexable. The css or the styles can influence SEO indirectly, but it should not completely block the search engines or it should not cause any major issues such as search engines not listing your site.
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1">Have you tried submitting a sitemap to Google?
// https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/build-sitemap
// https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/build-sitemap#addsitemapBest regards,
Ismaelyes I have. it seems that each individual page somehow has follow and under set and haven’t a clue how that happened.
Running the site thru ahrefs.com analysis, it has pages as http stats code:200, Is indexable page – No, Is No index – Yes, Is no follow – no, Meta robots •follow •No Index
Yet I don’t see where or how it became non index I certainly never specified that the pages should be as such.
Google likewise shows the pages as no index in a robots file.
Pulling my hair out trying to figure what needs to be changed.
Hi,
Thanks for the link to your site, your robots.txt is not blocking anything:User-agent: * Disallow:and according to this site no-index is not found:
Best regards,
MikeYup I saw that, everything seems fine but when I audited the site I get errors with with google and ahreafs.com have a look here:
https://asiamluxe.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Screenshot-2023-01-14-at-10.37.29-AM.png
If you have any advice I would appreciate it, ‘is no index – yes’ meta robots ‘•follow •noindex’
Hi,
Those results are for pages that end with /?s= which is used by WordPress for search results and WordPress makes those pages no-index
If you try going to one of those pages, as I have linked below, you will get a search not found error because the url is wrong.
I suspect that the crawler is following the search link in your menu for each page
Best regards,
MikeWell that’s peculiar because none of the pages have that suffix. The URLs are all correct. Would removing the search prevent the indexing from going wrong do you think? I’m ok with losing that functionality, how to completely remove it and see if that fixes the issue? Is it a simple matter of removing it or is there more to do?
I think you so much for taking the time this. I use you them exclusively anymore not just because it hilt so well but because of the tech support which has always been tremendous.
Tony
Hi,
Your screenshot showed the search suffix
by default the WordPress search link has the rel=”nofollow” which it meant to tell crawler to not follow:
which seems that your crawler is not obeying, based on your screenshot of the report.
So you could just ignore the report or you could remove the search link from your menu.
To remove the search link go to Enfold Theme Options ▸ Main Menu ▸ General ▸ Append search icon to main menu and disable.Best regards,
MikeThanks for you reply, especially on the weekend, you guys are the best. I will be removing it tomorrow and see what happens. Ignoring it won’t work because of what’s happening it seems google is not indexing the pages in question only looked at the search injury result. How very odd. Have you ever seen this glitch from google before? I can talk the client out the wordpress search I think.
Hi,
Very good, I have not seen this before typically Google obeys the rel=”nofollow” so I don’t know why in this case it is not.
Unless there is anything else we can help with on this issue, shall we close this then?Best regards,
MikeSure, I think this gives me the right direction to move on. At least with your help I know what seems to be happening. Again kudos to your tech support!
Hi,
Glad we were able to help, if you have any further questions please create a new thread and we will gladly try to help you. Thank you for using Enfold.Best regards,
Mike
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