What noindex does and how to remove it
SEO1 min readFixes check robots-meta-noindex
A noindex meta tag or header tells Google to drop the page from search. It is right for thank-you pages and wrong for anything you want found.
Step by step, with screenshots: "Discourage search engines": the WordPress box that hides your site →
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- The page is not set to noindexfail · −10 ptseffort S
Noindex directive
Why it matters. A noindex directive tells Google to drop this page from search results. Unless that is intended, every visit from search is lost.
How to fix it.
- Remove noindex from the robots meta tag and from the X-Robots-Tag header, unless the page should stay out of search.
- In WordPress, untick Settings → Reading → "Discourage search engines" and check the page's SEO plugin settings.