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@kboyshow We understand that you are experiencing an issue in that your site is not being indexed in Google.
We checked on the site in a Google search here and were able to confirm that the site is being indexed in Google search results (see image here).
Is there a particular page or post that you are not seeing as included in the index?
@baggiess We’re sorry to hear you are experiencing this issue on your site.
We checked on the page and did confirm that Yoast is outputting the following for the meta description (see image here):
<meta name="description" content="Wygodna Umowa I Niskie Opłaty I Doświadczoną Księgową I Pomoc w każdej sytuacji I Sprawdź nas !" />However, we do see that this is not the exact meta description that Google is indexing in a search here.
Whereas Google typically uses the meta description from the metadata for indexing, this is not always the case. Google will sometimes modify or ignore the meta description when it sees fit. This is not due to the plugin not functioning as expected, but rather is due to Google using another value for the meta description it indexes as it’s algorithm has concluded that there is a better version to index.
We have additional information on this here: https://yoast.com/help/my-meta-descriptions-arent-showing-up-in-the-search-result-pages/
If Google is ignoring the meta description you have created for a page and creating it’s own description based off the page’s content, we would recommend creating a new meta description that reflect’s the page’s content.
We have an article on how to write clean and meaningful meta description for your pages and posts by following the steps given in this guide. https://yoast.com/meta-descriptions/.
@juanforce This post appears to be a duplicate of the issue posted here, so we are closing this one in favor of the earlier post in order to avoid duplicate posts and avoid any confusion.
@marcustanfree We’re sorry to hear you are experiencing this issue on your site.
The Canonical tag is used to avoid duplicate content issues when you have the same content available on many variations of a URL, so that all those various URLs can all point to one URL for indexing purposes. We also have additional information on this feature at the following link: Canonical URLs in Yoast SEO.
By default the Yoast SEO plugin will output a canonical tag for every page/post on your site, and will use the permalink of that page/post for the canonical URL value. Normally, you would leave the Canonical URL value in the plugin blank by default and the canonical tag will automatically be set to the same value as the page’s permalink.If you do wish to change the Canonical URL for a page, you would need to perform the following steps:
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• Go to the ‘Edit’ screen for a page/post
• Scroll down to the Yoast SEO box and click on the ‘Advanced’ area.
• Set a value set for the Canonical URL
• Click ‘Update’Can you please try the aforementioned suggestions and let us know whether this resolves your issue?
@salvia49 We’re sorry to hear you are experiencing this issue on your site.
We have seen unexpected issues where the previously optimized data is invalid or incomplete. We’ll start with a reset of the optimization to ensure we’ve removed any invalid data. Let’s cover a few important things to be aware of beforehand.
First, we would understand if you were hesitant to reset the optimized data. We can assure you that your hard work will not be lost as the default WordPress tables also contain the SEO data. This process will only reset the custom Yoast tables with the combined data pulled from those default tables.
Second, we recommend creating regular backups of your site and database for your site’s health and safety. Backups are especially important before making substantial changes to your website. It provides you with a safety net if something were to go wrong. Learn more about the benefits of regular backups.
Thirdly, we highly recommend using a staging or testing site to reduce the impact on your live site. Some popular web hosts offer quick setups for a staging site, so please contact your web host for assistance. They will probably be able to help you out. If your web host does not offer staging sites, the WordPress plugin repository offers staging plugins, or you can create your own staging site.
Regarding the issue, we know that resetting the data may sound intimidating, but our How to reset the Yoast indexables guide will walk you through the process step by step. We’ve also summarized the steps below.
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1. Install & activate the Yoast Test Helper plugin
2. Go to Tools > Yoast Test
3. Locate the Yoast SEO section and click on the ‘Reset indexables tables & migrations’, ‘Reset Prominent words calculation’, and ‘Reset Internal link counter’ buttons. After each click, the page will reload to confirm that the specific reset was successful.
4. Go to Yoast SEO > Tools, and under SEO data, click the “Start SEO data optimization” button to allow Yoast to rescan your content.Please let us know if the reported issue remains after resetting the optimized data.
@envisiondesign We’re sorry to hear you are experiencing this issue on your site.
We understand you want a release correcting any compatibility issues with Yoast SEO and PHP 8.1.
Unfortunately we’re currently unable to address all issues or errors associated with the PHP 8 compatibility issues. The only current workaround would be to downgrade PHP to the last supported version you were using, (like version 7.4).
Our devs are continuously improving 8.0 and 8.1 compatibilities, but this is a huge step, as PHP 8 introduces a lot of big changes. It should already be reasonably compatible with PHP 8 at this point, with the exception of a couple of notices. There is no release planning yet for it, so, unfortunately, we can’t give you a date for it.
If you are interested in learning more about PHP 8 compatibility, please have a look at our 2020 WordPress and PHP 8 compatibility report.
@bwickert We’re sorry to hear you are experiencing this issue on your site.
A blank meta box issue occurs due to a JavaScript conflict. So we’d like you to please perform a conflict check. This will help us narrow down the exact cause and determine what the next steps are while saving you time.
Often, we see problems occur in combination with another plugin or theme. The fastest way to rule out any conflict is to deactivate all non-Yoast plugins and switch to a standard theme like Twenty Twenty.
Please test this on your development or staging site, if you have one. If not, we recommend using the Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin. This plugin has a troubleshooting mode, which does not affect normal visitors to your site.
If you’re unfamiliar with checking for conflicts, we’d like to point you to a step-by-step guide that will walk you through the process: How to check for plugin conflicts.
Can you please inform us of the results, so we can help you figure out what the problem is?
@pleazo We’re sorry to hear you are experiencing this issue on your site.
Unfortunately, we are only able to provide support for issues related to the Yoast SEO plugin in this channel and we aren’t seeing anything from the images you provided or what you described as being related to or caused by the Yoast SEO plugin.
To get support for your issue we’d recommend contacting Google Ads support directly for assistance as your issue is related to that.
@carloswedev We are sorry that you’re having trouble with the SEO analysis.
The grey dots are for the SEO Score and they usually appear as grey when you have not selected a focus keyphrase yet. For the pages where this is occurring, did you confirm for the affected pages you have at least one focus keyword set for the page?
As for bulk updating the pages, you might be able to accomplish that by using the bulk editor feature by selecting all the products from the products overview page, choosing ‘Edit’ from the Bulk Actions menu, clicking ‘Apply’ and then in the pop-up window clicking ‘Update’ (without making any actual changes).
@gtatar In the latest version of Yoast SEO, setting
wpseo_robotstofalsenow set the content value tonoindex, nofollow.Currently there is not a filter available to completely remove the robots meta tag from the Yoast SEO output.
While we don’t have an immediately available solution to remove the robots meta completely from your website, the robots meta tag should have no effect when there’s no value in the
contentkey. So, you may want to return an empty string i.e.,from thewpseo_robotsfilter to see whether it returns an empty value for you in the robots meta.@dawodus We’re sorry to hear you are experiencing this issue on your site.
We reviewed the screenshots you provided and responded to each individually:
For the image https://prnt.sc/gNntUPkmTC1W
We aren’t sure what you are trying to indicate as the problem with this specific page. Can you please clarify this? The page shows as being indexed, with no crawl issues, and the page fetch was successful.
For the image https://prnt.sc/_U0n3UvrKJW7
First of all, this image indicates that the
sitemap_index.xmlfile you submitted to Google Search Console shows as having been successfully submitted to Google Search Console, so it does appear that Google Search Console did read the sitemap without any issues.You also indicated on this image that you are concerned by the ‘Discovered URLs’ showing a value of ‘0’.
Are there any specific URLs that you are seeing as having been submitted, but are not indexed?
We are uncertain why it’s being reported with 0 URLs discovered in Google Search Console, but according to Google, it doesn’t necessarily indicate a problem. You can read more about this here. Most probably, Google needs some time to process the sitemap. And do keep in mind that Google Search Console reports are not real-time.
So we would like to suggest allowing some time for Google to process the sitemap. For a speedier resolution, you could delete the sitemap in Google Search Console and resubmit it again. Sometimes, it helps to fix the 0 discovered URLs notice faster. We have a good article that can be useful on this topic: Submit Your Sitemap To Search Engines.
For the image https://prnt.sc/4m4jo3HCu3lt
For the individual issues listed by Google for URLs in the sitemap, these would need to individually addressed, and without us knowing the URLs of the affected URLs, we aren’t able to say for certain whether the reported issues are correct.
For the URLs as being reported as Not Found (404), have you checked any of these URLs to confirm whether they are returning a 404? If so, we’d recommend resolving that by redirecting the URL if possible. At the very least they shouldn’t be included in the sitemap.
As for the URLs being reported as Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag, if the Yoast SEO plugin has these pages set to noindex, then they shouldn’t be included in the sitemap at all.
If the sitemap contains pages that are set to noindex, it may indicate that the sitemap itself isn’t updated due it being cached or some other issue. Whereas the XML Sitemap should dynamically update after any modification to it, if the site or server is caching the sitemap this can cause it to not update right away. We also have additional information on this at the following link: https://yoast.com/help/sitemap-does-not-update/.
If you are not seeing the sitemap as updated, we would recommend checking your caching settings and to ensure that the sitemap is being excluded from the cache.If the sitemap is being cached by a plugin we have directions on how to add an exclusion for the sitemap files to your cache plugin at the following link: https://yoast.com/help/exclude-sitemaps-from-cache/
If you are still experiencing an issue with the sitemap not updating after checking your site’s caching settings, you can also force a cache reset by temporarily disabling the sitemap feature, and then re-enabling it. To do so please perform the following steps:
In order to disable and then re-enable sitemaps in the Yoast SEO plugin, you would need to perform the following actions:
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• In WordPress go to Yoast SEO>General>Features
• Toggle the ‘XML Sitemaps’ option to ‘Off’
• Click ‘Save Changes’
• Toggle the ‘XML Sitemaps’ option to ‘On’
• Click ‘Save Changes’We also have a guide on how to enable and disable XML Sitemaps here: https://yoast.com/help/xml-sitemaps-in-the-wordpress-seo-plugin/
Can you please try the aforementioned suggestions and letting us know whether it resolves your issue and you are able to successfully update the sitemap?
@soulmama Thanks for your reply.
I first checked in a Google image search here using her only her name, but I didn’t initially see any images that were from your site and unrelated to her work.
To try and narrow this further, I also tried a site specific image search of
site:soulmamaarts.com UTVALDA UTSTÄLLNINGARhere and again I’m not seeing any images listed in the results (see image here).Would you please be able to provide a screenshot of which images you are referring to that are not relevant in a search of her, and provide the query that they are appearing in for Google search?
@nvest Thanks for your reply.
Regarding the errors, we reviewed these again and still we aren’t seeing any issues with the
<image:loc>URL on Line 215 as the image specified (https://www.ongresso-energy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/hydrogen-energy-storage-gas-tank-meadow-environment-e1664460614775.jpg) loads for us without any issues.In addition, if the error related to Line 259 is still being reported, this is certainly erroneous, as Line 259 does not even exist in the page-sitemap.xml file as it’s last line is Line 254.
Unfortunately, if the suggestions we’ve given are still not resolving those issue, at this point the best advice we can recommend is to contact Google Search Console’s support directly about this issue. You can create your own thread about this warning and receive assistance on resolving it by creating a post on the Google Search Console support forum at: https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/new?hl=en
@ajsmorillas We’re sorry to hear you are experiencing this issue on your site.
We understand you are receiving a notification of an issue from the AMP plugin, that you are trying to correct and believe is caused by the Yoast SEO plugin, is that correct?
If so, we see that many of these returned errors are in relation to links for the
https://deleted_for_privacy.com/site, but upon inspecting the source code ofhttps://imorillas.com/we are not seeing these links.Can you please confirm what the URL is where the AMP plugin is returning these warnings for?
@singhmc What dictates whether a page/post or product is shown in it’s corresponding sitemap can be set both on a global level (meaning the default setting for all pages/post that are part of that content type or taxonomy) and also be set on an individual level from the Yoast meta box on the ‘Edit’ screen for that page/post/product.
In both ways this setting is changed by modifying the ‘Show in search results’ setting to either ‘Yes’ (this sets the robots meta tag to a value of
index, and means the page/post/product will have it’s URL included in the sitemap) or ‘No’ (this sets the robots meta tag to a value ofnoindex, and means the page/post/product will NOT have it’s URL included in the sitemap).We would recommend checking to make sure the robots meta tag is NOT set to
noindexfor the hidden product in Yoast SEO, and you can change this setting by performing the following actions to change setting on an individual page/post/product:-
• Go to the Edit screen for the product
• Scroll down to the Yoast metabox
• Click on the ‘Advanced’ area
• For ‘Allow search engines to show this Page in search results?’ make sure this is set to ‘Yes’
* Note (setting this value to Yes will set meta robots toindexand include it’s URL in the sitemap)In addition, you can set pages/posts, products, and taxonomies to be indexed and included in the sitemap as the default for their entire type globally by performing the following actions:
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• In WordPress go to Yoast SEO>Search Appearance>Content Types (or Taxonomies if you are trying to affect a change to a Taxonomy type)
• For the corresponding content type set ‘Show in search results’ to ‘Yes’
• Click ‘Save Changes’We also have additional information on this topic in the How do I noindex URLs? and the How do I customize the sitemap index? articles.
