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1,000's of pages Excluded by from google by ‘noindex’ tag

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  • November 22, 2019 at 3:53 pm #518312

    adriangraham
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    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

    November 22, 2019 at 5:40 pm #518331

    Kor
    Moderator
    Post count: 16516

    Hi adriangraham,

    Thanks for your post. Are you using any SEO plugins? If not, you can share your Website WP admin access here and we’ll check what’s going on.

    November 22, 2019 at 7:06 pm #518341

    adriangraham
    Expired Member
    Post count: 426

    I am using YOAST – which blocks the internal search results of a website. but the GD search page is not the site-wide WordPress search page is it?

    WHat the GDs thoughts on blocking the GD search results page from being indexed?

    Thanks,

    Adrian

    November 22, 2019 at 9:52 pm #518356

    Alex Rollin
    Moderator
    Post count: 27815

    Generally speaking, most sites have just one search page, but it is possible to have 2.

    The URLs you mention are internal and should not be shared because they are incorrect and are missing the search page slug.

    The developers will nevertheless comment if there is a workaround to remove the no-index.

    November 23, 2019 at 9:54 am #518400

    adriangraham
    Expired Member
    Post count: 426

    Thanks Alex.

    When you say:

    The URLs you mention are internal and should not be shared because they are incorrect and are missing the search page slug.

    These are pages that are the result of a GDV2 search – so am I missing something do you think?

    Another example of the 2,000 in my Google Search console that are excluded is:

    https://www.childcarefinder.ie/search/?geodir_search=1&county=Galway&snear_town=Galway+City%2C+Galway&s=+&stype=gd_place&snear=Galway+City%2C+Galway&spost_category%5B%5D=&sgeo_lat=53.2744122&sgeo_lon=-9.0490632

    So me these are quite relevant pages – but I might be missing the point of the exclude :o)

    Thanks

    Adrian

    November 25, 2019 at 1:15 pm #518612

    Kiran
    Moderator
    Post count: 7069

    Hi Adrian,

    Please check documentation at yoast to know about working of index/nonindex tag.
    https://yoast.com/robots-meta-tags/
    https://yoast.com/show-x-in-search-results/

    Use following PHP snippet to filter robots meta tag on GeoDirectory search page.

    

    /**
 * Filter robots meta tag.
 */
function gd_snippet_wpseo_robots( $robotsstr ) {
	if ( function_exists( 'geodir_is_page' ) && geodir_is_page( 'search' ) ) {
		//$robotsstr = 'index,follow';
		$robotsstr = '';
	}

	return $robotsstr;
}
add_filter( 'wpseo_robots', 'gd_snippet_wpseo_robots', 20, 1 );
    

    Regards,
    
Kiran
    

		
	
    


    

			
		
	
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