MariusG
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In order for us to replicate this issue, please make sure you still have the Health Check plugin, then go to Dashboard → Health Check → Debug information and copy-paste the information here.
This will allow us to replicate your environment, and hopefully the issue too.
- This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by MariusG.
Hey @kevin15nl,
Did you fix the issue in the meantime? We’ve just inspected your sitemap and it appears to be working and is in the correct format.
Are you still getting that error in Google Search Console? If so, we suggest removing the sitemap and resubmitting it to the search engines.
Thanks for sharing the solution, we’re happy to hear you managed to find out what was adding the x-robots noindex tag.
When checking the source of your URL, we are able to find all of the correct Open Graph tags generated by Yoast SEO Premium: https://i.imgur.com/aKiJjBY.png
However, in Facebook’s Sharing Debugger, if you scroll down all the way to See exactly what our scraper sees for your URL, you will notice that Facebook’s crawler is not getting the same content.
The issue is not that there are missing Open Graph tags, but that Facebook is not able to detect them. In this manner, we would recommend checking with your hosting provider why Facebook is getting different content when crawling your URL compared to the actual page source.
Hi Chris,
We’ve inspected your URL and can confirm that Yoast SEO is generating the correct SEO title:
<title>Wie viel kostet eine Weltreise pro Jahr? (Inkl. Kostenaufstellung)</title>However, even though the correct title tag is generated, there are some cases where Google may decide to ignore or replace your title.
Adding the brand at the end of the title is a common practice by Google, you can find more about this here.
Please try to check for conflicts. By this, we mean activating Yoast SEO while all the other plugins are disabled, to determine if the issue is caused by an incompatibility.
Please inform us of the results.
Hi Jan-Philip,
If client_category and testimonial_category are custom taxonomies, you should be able to noindex and remove them from the sitemap by going to SEO → Search Appearance → Taxonomies. Does this fix your issue?
Hi Alec,
Please go to SEO → Search Appearance → Content Types / Media / Taxonomies / Archives and make sure to disable anything that you do not want to get indexed.
The high number of URLs is likely due to content (such as media attachment pages) which was not indexed before.
There was a known issue (which has been fixed in the meantime) where several settings were reset when updating from a version prior to 7.0 to 7.0.2.
In order to replicate this issue, please let us know from which version of Yoast SEO did you update.
Unfortunately, without knowing your website in depth, it would be impossible to provide you with an exact answer.
As a general guideline, indexing the category pages without the posts does not make much sense. If you’re looking for a suggestion, it might be best to look at other humor websites (similar to yours) and how they’re dealing with the individual post pages.
In the past (before Yoast SEO 7.0), noindexing URLs and removing them from the sitemap was done separately, although they were pretty much serving the same purpose.
Now, when you noindex a URL (or a taxonomy, archive, etc.), it also gets removed automatically from the sitemap.
@eccola-www’s answer is correct. Selecting No for “Show X in search results?” will add the robots noindex tag and remove it from the sitemap.
- This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by MariusG.
Hi @rik0399,
Please send us a URL where you’re no longer able to get Summary with Large Image, so that we can investigate it and provide you with a solution.
Hi @celsad,
In order to remove a specific post or category, tag (or any other taxonomy) from the sitemap, you have to noindex them as in this guide.
When you noindex a post or a taxonomy, it also gets removed fromt he sitemap.
@beatravelling please update to the latest versions of Yoast SEO, 7.1. The latest update addressed some performance issues. Does the issue persist?
If you do not set custom Open Graph tags to your post, then Yoast SEO will use by default:
- The SEO title as og:title
- The meta description as og:description
- The featured image as og:image
That being said, you should only set custom tags if you want to replace the default values.
Hi @razerino,
We’ve checked both of the URLs which you’ve sent us and they both have the robots noindex tag, meaning it’s only a matter of time until Google removes them from their index.
Please note that since you’ve noindexed pretty much everything on your website besides the pages, this means that Google crawls your website less often than before (which is why the deindexation process will take more time).
Have you submitted your sitemap to the search engines?
If so, then there’s nothing else which you can do at this point but wait, your media category pages and posts will be removed from Google’s index.
