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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon frostschutz

google bot noindex problem

Open azamet90 opened this issue 4 years ago • 9 comments

my sitemaps have noindex tag and google bot is not able to crawl my site how can i fix this? noindex only on sitemap ... please help me thx

azamet90 avatar Jun 27 '20 14:06 azamet90

search robots should use the sitemap for themselves only, they should not index it to show end users in search results.

thus the sitemap is noindex. this works fine for google and others. it should not affect your site in any way.

frostschutz avatar Jun 27 '20 14:06 frostschutz

search robots should use the sitemap for themselves only, they should not index it to show end users in search results.

thus the sitemap is noindex. this works fine for google and others. it should not affect your site in any way.

image really? what is this then :(

azamet90 avatar Jun 27 '20 15:06 azamet90

Sorry, I can't read that and no context is given. Is that referring to sitemap-*.xml specifically or some other page?

Are you trying to get the XML Sitemap itself indexed? That's unusual and not supported. Even so, just remove the X-Robot line from inc/plugins/google_seo/sitemap.php then.

If you have this tag appearing on other pages, it's nothing to do with my plugin, can't help you there.

frostschutz avatar Jun 27 '20 20:06 frostschutz

Sorry, I can't read that and no context is given. Is that referring to sitemap-*.xml specifically or some other page?

Are you trying to get the XML Sitemap itself indexed? That's unusual and not supported. Even so, just remove the X-Robot line from inc/plugins/google_seo/sitemap.php then.

If you have this tag appearing on other pages, it's nothing to do with my plugin, can't help you there.

shortly it says: Is it allowed to be indexed? NO and i only have the noindex thing on sitemap if i put # on that noindex thing in that file sitemap.php google is green but still cannot add it then it says: Failed to fetch

azamet90 avatar Jun 28 '20 14:06 azamet90

This was cut off from your screenshot but I assume you're referring to this?

Screenshot_2020-06-28 URL Inspection

Again, this is normal. You are not supposed to URL inspect the sitemap-index.xml (or any other sitemap subpage). It's not supposed to be indexed at all.

You can add and inspect the sitemap under https://search.google.com/u/0/search-console/sitemaps or specify it in your robots.txt and it'll work.

frostschutz avatar Jun 28 '20 15:06 frostschutz

You can add and inspect the sitemap under

yes im trying tto add there "forum/sitemap-index.xml" but i get this error :(

azamet90 avatar Jun 28 '20 17:06 azamet90

problem still exist

azamet90 avatar Jul 03 '20 09:07 azamet90

i can add u as user to my google search console panel and u can see that it is not working because of that noindex problem?

azamet90 avatar Jul 03 '20 09:07 azamet90

did you get it fixed?

roast247 avatar Apr 24 '22 04:04 roast247