UPDATED - How-to Fix Excluded by ‘NOINDEX’ Tag - Google Search Console Page Indexing

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Video tutorial showing How to Fix Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag issues in Page Indexing reports in Google search console.
Basically, you need to identify how Google user-agent Googlebot is seeing noindex robots directive from URLs on your website, and then, remove noindex directive so that Google can index the problem URLs.
There is only 2 ways to generate this
robots meta tag which can be viewed in the example URL source code
Or, HTTP Response header which a web hosting server (usually .htaccess file)
Header set "X-Robots-Tag: noindex"
or website theme files may use PHP code to send
header("X-Robots-Tag: noindex", true)
meaning you need to identify how Google is seeing this noindex directive and remove it from those URLs you want Google to index.
To learn more visit
support.google...
How to Fix Excluded by noindex Tag
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[@RankYa]

How to find the culprit cause of noindex issue? First make sure you are looking at this www.rankya.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/search-console-noindex-report.png
Then use URL Inspection tool (TEST Live URL) and look here www.rankya.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/search-console-URL-Inspection-report.png
Still have issues, comment on www.rankya.com

[@dombarton2483]

Awesome video!

[@RankYa]

Thanks Dom :-)

[@TravelItineraryDestinations]

In my case, the problem of no index is the tag/-----/feed
I clicked the command F and typed noindex, no index, and "no index" nothing came out of it. But in the More Info box, I can see the noindex.

[@RankYa]

I think your website is built on WordPress! If this is the case, then, for FEED URLs you need not worry about *NOINDEX* issues shown in Google Search Console.
If you do not want Google Search Console to _not_ show issues related to WordPress *feed URLs* then
1 = Simply ensure that the website map (Sitemap) you've submitted to Google Search Console is setup correctly (as in, XML sitemap only contain the URLs you want Google to index).
2 = create a robots.txt file and add disallow directive to _feed URLs_ for example:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /*/feed/
this will ensure you no longer see excluded by "noindex" issues in Search Console for WordPress feed URLs.
Because you should not waste time with trying to fix noindex errors for WordPress feed URLs.

[@Luffy-iz5di]

In osclass search page I don't need to index so I updated robots.txt disallow for search but Google search console taking search url to crawl and it's showing in crawled - currently not indexed and I also mentioned no index tag .what should I do

[@RankYa]

1. Check Sitemap you've submitted to ensure the correct URLs are in the sitemap.
2. *REMOVE robots.txt directive first*
3. wait till Google updates (as in sees noindex tag) and removes the URL from its index (you can confidently delete the currect sitemap and then re-submit to speed up the process).
4. ONLY then, you can now use robots.txt directive to block crawling of Googlebot.
For your knowledge: the problem Google is having is = it is NOT seeing/obeying noindex directive on the web page because you are blocking crawl process through robots.txt

[@Luffy-iz5di]

@@RankYa Thankyou

[@donoiseagency]

Hello, thanks for this video. My question is: If in test live, the URL that Google said noindex and In test live is available to Google. What do I do?

[@RankYa]

Although I'm not 100% certain, I think in your case, all you need to do is identify *noindex* directive and simply remove it from the URL in question.

[@aiphunnuochonnonbo46]

When you create a product category, by default that category will automatically insert the noindex tag. If you want to index that category, you create a product for that category and it will automatically be indexed. I used to have the same problem. and it has been processed

[@MalcomMclean-b4c]

I am using Rankmath how do I fix it.

[@RankYa]

Depends, for entire section of WordPress, simply ensure *index* is selected rankmath.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Navigate-to-Titles-Meta.png at global level
For individual URLs having noindex issues, navigate to the URL in question, edit, find RankMath settings and change noindex to index.
Since you are using WordPress, triple make sure that you submit ONLY XML for parts of WordPress that has original/useful content (for example: blog-posts, pages, product URLs) the rest you can confidently ignore telling Google about (this will ensure you see what's important in Search Console, instead of unimportant errors).
This means: in Google Search Console > Sitemaps > add sitemap
post-sitemap.xml
page-sitemap.xml
(if eCommerce product-sitemap.xml)
BUT NOT
www.example.com/sitemap_index.xml
(NOTE: in rare cases, a WordPress site may include custom post types with original content. In such cases, you would want those custom post types to be indexed by Google). For example: membership site, with Q&A section using custom post types.).
*if you've already submitted sitemap_index.xml in Search Console? *Remove that sitemap* and _then add your new sitemap/s_ that you want Google to index. In terms of SEO and Google rankings, this means, URLs that have original/useful content.
You can and should ignore TAG URLs, Date Archives etc. all of which are called placeholder content and most of these URLs will cause Page Indexing errors such as noindex issues. That is why it is important to submit the correct XML Sitemap in Search Console. I hope this helps.

[@Chikitaisback]

@@RankYa am using rank math's too,it seems the option isn't there
Very bad,m uninstalling it .@rankmaths

[@bmd_videos]

Still can't find no index code 😢

[@RankYa]

First make sure you are looking at this www.rankya.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/search-console-noindex-report.png
Then use URL Inspection tool (TEST Live URL)
And look here www.rankya.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/search-console-URL-Inspection-report.png
Still have issues, comment on www.rankya.com