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Hello, my website has a “noindex” problem and it is not similar to any other support topics I’ve read. My new articles take days (or never) to be shown on google search and some of them are still nowhere to be found.
So, if I go on google search and inspect an URL that has an error, I get the message “the url is not on google, index error”. The only manual solution I’ve found is to click “indexing request” after getting an error in the inspection tool.
In these screenshots you can see the message I get before requesting a specific url to be indexed.
Google catalog result :
https://imgur.com/jLW7tM7
Check live result for the same URL :
https://imgur.com/a/NjkjWwI
So, if I click “index request”, it takes google search 10-30 minutes to index it, but if I don’t, it may take 3-4 days (like my last post). Other posts are yet to be shown. For instance, many posts that I uploaded on 15th December are still not indexed and they are included in the sitemap, which confuses me. None of these posts has a noindex meta tag, in its source code, despite the fact that google’s error is “No: the “noindex” parameter was found in the “robots” meta tag”
1. WordPress panel reading settings : ok, the field is unchecked
2. the sitemap is successfully submitted on google and up-to-date
3.Yoast-wise, there are no reports for seo problems, the xml sitemap is on, google search console is verified,
content types that are enabled for the setting “show in search results” : (post), (page) ,(categories) , (post tags), (post formats) <–should I disable this one for security reasons?
Disabled : templates
4. I have deleted my cache and I did not use CDN when the errors first appeared.
Some other info : tags were disabled, however I enabled them on Yoast two days ago, they still get an index error by Google.
Some of these posts that get an error message have a back dated publication date, but I don’t think that this has anything to do with not getting indexed.
I created a robots file through your plugin, 3-4 days ago.
So these are the robot files I can find in my file manager :
File manager found two robots.txt
https://imgur.com/eDYopMR
I think that the first one does not conflict with this site, because it is placed in a different public_html subfolder, as the paths in the screenshot show.
Anyhow, its parameters are these :
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-snapshots/
I created the second one with one click through the Yoast plugin because there was a message saying that I do not have a robots.txt.
Its parameters are the following :
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Is this a ping problem? What am I doing wrong here?
Thank you in advance for your help.