Title: Meta robots returning wrong
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Meta robots returning wrong

 *  [OutThisLife](https://wordpress.org/support/users/outthislife/)
 * (@outthislife)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-robots-returning-wrong/)
 * Hi –
 * I’ve just experienced this w/ 3 different sites, out of 15 so it’s not something
   I know how to easily reproduce. With all settings set to “index” and robots.txt
   open, the plugin was returning a robots meta tag of “noindex,follow”.
 * I think it may be W3 Total Cache caching the noindex,follow result and, for some
   reason, never clearing it.
 * I ended up using this snippet to hotfix it:
 *     ```
       add_filter('wpseo_robots', function($robots) {
       	return 'index,follow';
       });
       ```
   
 * Has anyone else experienced this?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/)

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 *  [KEXINO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kexino/)
 * (@kexino)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-robots-returning-wrong/#post-5595099)
 * Yes, I have the same issue.
    Many thanks for posting the “quick’n’dirty” fix.

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