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google bot noindex problem #74

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azamet90 opened this issue Jun 27, 2020 · 9 comments
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google bot noindex problem #74

azamet90 opened this issue Jun 27, 2020 · 9 comments

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@azamet90
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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

@frostschutz
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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.

@azamet90
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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.

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really? what is this then :(

@frostschutz
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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.

@azamet90
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azamet90 commented Jun 28, 2020

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

@frostschutz
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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.

@azamet90
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You can add and inspect the sitemap under

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

@azamet90
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azamet90 commented Jul 3, 2020

problem still exist

@azamet90
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azamet90 commented Jul 3, 2020

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?

@roast247
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did you get it fixed?

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