Guys,
Since upgrading to GD2 seem to have a fallen on SEO a bit. On closer looking one possible issue is I see nearly 2,000 pages as “excluded” in my search console. Reason given is: “Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag”. These all look like search results pages… but I think they should be included in the google index.
Example Link:
https://www.childcarefinder.ie/page/3/?geodir_search=1&county=Meath&snear=Navan,+Meath&s=+&stype=gd_place&sgeo_lat=53.6530417&sgeo_lon=-6.684230399999933
The reason given is
"Indexing Allowed? No: 'noindex' detected in 'robots' meta tag"
Looking at the source of the above sample page I see:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"/>
What is the thinking behind the
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"/>
on search results and how can I make them included.
Thanks,
Adrian