Plugin creating meta noindex tag

  • Resolved ginodemarco7075

    (@ginodemarco7075)


    3 years, 8 months ago

    Hello – I’m using the free version of the product and I thought everything was working great, just like I wanted. But Google recently reported that some of my pages were tagged with a “noindex” tag. Researching I find that Google Search is trying to index all of the pages for Categories and Tags using the Filter Everything syntax. Example: https://[mysite]/?cat-filter=pets or https://[mysite]/?tag-filter=cow. These are not actual pages on my site, they are created by Filter Everything variations of my categories and tags. For each of these pages, there is a <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex, nofollow”> tag in the header. Google is giving me an indexing error and I can’t get approved for advertising.

    I’ve tested this by disabling Filter Everything–when I do, the noindex tag goes away.

    Is there a way to turn that off? Looking at the paid version forum, it appears there are SEO Rules that may come into play. But there does not appear to be anything in the free version. How can I deal with this so the noindex tag is not created?

    Thanks for your help.

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  • Plugin Author stepasyuk

    (@stepasyuk)

    3 years, 7 months ago

    Hi @ginodemarco7075

    Thank you for using Filter Everything plugin.

    In general these pages do not contain any unique information and that’s why they have “noindex” tag. From the SEO point of view they are not useful for indexing and the best way is to close them from that. And the plugin do it in right way.

    I don’t think Google has it in mind it is error. It notifies you that pages are closed from indexing and maybe you wanted to make them indexed. I think you can ignore this message from the Search Console.

    The same option you can find for example in Yoast SEO plugin that offers you to close category, tag archives from indexing. It is common practice.

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