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Problem with Google Search Console

September 20, 2022 at 2:56 am #8371

[anonymous]

First of all, this is my first post. I absolutely LOVE Publii.

In fact, I’ve been blogging daily – coming up on 30 days in a row.

Now:

Google isn’t indexing a lot of my tags.

And I see why. For some reason, I have this in the <head> of each tag page:

<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex, follow”>

I don’t think I have noindex turned on…

Can someone point me in the right direction to fix this universally through my blog?

September 20, 2022 at 6:31 am #8373

[anonymous]

Noindex can be turned on/off from Site Settings>Advanced Options >SEO

Take a look at https://getpublii.com/docs/website-settings.html#seo

September 20, 2022 at 4:14 pm #8374

[anonymous]

[anonymous] wrote:

Noindex can be turned on/off from Site Settings>Advanced Options >SEO

Take a look at https://getpublii.com/docs/website-settings.html#seo

I have noindex turned off.

It only shows a noindex on tag pages – not on content/blog pages.

Any other ideas?

September 20, 2022 at 7:36 pm #8375

[anonymous]

A quick FYI I forgot to say in my original post:

One of the greatest gifts I learned from suffering with WordPress was tag pages.

They are HIGHLY rewarded on Google.

The vast majority of my organic traffic came from blog tag pages.

As we can see, Google is holding back… all because Publii is adding this in each tag’s header section:

<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex, follow”>

September 20, 2022 at 7:51 pm #8379

Bob

There are two places where you can manage robots meta tags: in Site settings -> SEO and in Tag manager.
Check both. I’m sure NOindex is set in one of them.

September 20, 2022 at 7:55 pm #8385

[anonymous]

[anonymous] wrote:

There are two places where you can manage robots meta tags: in Site settings -> SEO and in Tag manager.

Check both. I’m sure NOindex is set in one of them.

Ah ha. There it is (by default). Thank you!

Suggestion for the future: make “index, follow” the default. Google will reward us as a result.

September 21, 2022 at 5:32 am #8387

Bob

[anonymous] wrote:

Suggestion for the future: make “index, follow” the default. Google will reward us as a result.

In most cases, the tagged pages contain the same content – a post listing, that the search engine can treat as duplicate, thin content. This is why Publii sets noindex to all of them by default.