Meta-Robots noFollow and Blocked by Meta-Robots

[gfiedel]

On my most recent campaign report, I have 2 Notices that we can't find any cause for:

Meta-Robots nofollow-
http://www.fateyes.com/the-effect-of-social-media-on-the-serps-social-signals-seo/?replytocom=92
"noindex nofollow" for the page:

http://www.fateyes.com/the-effect-of-social-media-on-the-serps-social-signals-seo/

Blocked by Meta-Robots -Meta-Robots nofollow-
http://www.fateyes.com/the-effect-of-social-media-on-the-serps-social-signals-seo/?replytocom=92
"noindex nofollow" for the page:

http://www.fateyes.com/the-effect-of-social-media-on-the-serps-social-signals-seo/

We are unable to locate any code whatsoever that may explain this. Any ideas anyone?

[gfiedel]

Thank you, Mike and James. This makes a lot of sense since this is the only blog page that has a comment. (embarrassing to say that publicly ;o) And I haven't gotten this notice for any other blog pages.

[jws8118]

I agree with Mike, you do have a meta noindex nofollow tag on those pages but it is likely autogenerated due to a setting in WP to exclude any duplicate pages created b/c of URL parameters.

[MikeRoberts]

The meta robots tag set to NoIndex means that the page is blocked by Meta Robots. Not really an error to be worried about. Due to Wordpress creating duplicate content thanks to the ?replytocom= parameter you likely set it in the backend to noindex those pages.

So the actual page "http://www.fateyes.com/the-effect-of-social-media-on-the-serps-social-signals-seo/" is lacking a robots tag as far as i can see and will therefore technically be indexable but the ?replytocom= created by the comments is correctly noindex.