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Noindex issue with new google search console
Description
I recently started a new marketing site and started to add the domain to google search consle as opposed to url. The domain is a new thing google offer as opposed to just adding url so I went that route. After two weeks of submitting SEO sitemaps I kept getting noindex flags from google. I checked the raw page output and headers sent - noindex issue persisted, along with a very confusing HTTPS message
Total head scratch.
Having lost time on SEO juice building i just swapped out this SEO plugin to another commercial plugin i have used on other sites. Submitted site map - and we are back in the index. Go figure.
Not sure whats going on here but it ain't good.
Steps to reproduce
- Just use it as intended and set environment correctly
- Request search index via google console via submission of SEO produced sitemaps
Additional info
- Craft version: 4
- SEO version: latest
- PHP version: 8.1
- Database driver & version: mySQL5.7
If anyone else is experiencing this, it's because the plugin is still looking for ENVIRONMENT variable. Craft CMS 4 now uses CRAFT_ENVIRONMENT. So a hack around this problem until this plugin is updated is to have both variables in your .env file.
CRAFT_ENVIRONMENT=production
ENVIRONMENT=production
The work-around should not be necessary anymore in the latest version of the plug-in.
