Blocked by Meta Robots.
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Hi,
I get this warning on my reporting.
- Blocked by Meta Robots - This page is being kept out of the search engine indexes by meta-robots.
what does that means ? and how to solve that, if i using wordpress as my website engine.
and about rel=canonical , in which page I should put this tag, in original page, or in copy page ?
thanks for all of your answer, it will be means a lot
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There are wordpress plugins you can use to modify your robots.txt, wordpress makes it difficult.
http://yoast.com/example-robots-txt-wordpress/
Also, make sure it is an important page for your blog- Google is just being proactive on your behalf, it might be an irrelevant page to your overall plan.
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Actually it would not be in the meta robots noindex. The meta tag does not prevent Google from crawling the page it is on. If it did that, then Google would not be able to crawl the page and then it would not be able to read the tag :-). The meta robots will tell Google to remove the page from the index and so it is very effective for that application.
That said, the GWT warning, is probably related to you robots.txt file located at
http://www.yourdomain.ext/robots.txt
Put that in your browser and see if you have any of your files, pages Disallowed in that file. If that is the case, then Google will not be able to spider a page to start with, let alone read the meta tags. Do some searching on Google on how robots.txt works Moz obviously has one
http://moz.com/learn/seo/robotstxt
Here is a video on how to use Wordpress and robot.txt - it may or may not relate to your config, but will show a plugin that you can use to adjust
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY9A5OqHTvw
You can figure out how to understand it and then what you need to update it. Get with your IT person or whoever admins your site
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It means there is a meta tag on the page that is blocking the page. Look in the head section of the page for a tag. Remove this and you should be good to go. Check your WordPress settings, sometimes these tags are automatically assigned to pages as a default. You could also download a SEO plug in to help manage the meta robots tags.
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