No Index Meta
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Good Morning,
So the company who redesigned our website forgot to take off any of the no-index stuff that was put onto the site once it went live. I removed everything in the robots.txt and the privacy settings in wordpress but I am still seeing
Any suggestions on changing this or if its even necessary to change would be great! Thank you
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I think i got it taken care of, I'm not entirely where the problem lied, I think it was a combo of all of the above, but as for right now, it looks like everything is ok.... but it seemed to just sorta vanish all of the sudden....
I also alerted the dev team at the design studio, so I have a feeling they may have made a change that did it... but at least it seems ok.
Thanks guys!
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Was this fixed? I didn't see that tag on the home page in the source code any longer.
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Odds are the errant meta robots tag is in header.php. You should be able to find the file in the back end under Appearance/Editor. With that said, be very careful - make a backup if you must 'cowboy code'- then work with a text editor (Sublime, Komodo, Notepad++, Notepad, etc.) to copy and paste your work.
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Its been unchecked! I that was the first thing I did!
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In the WordPress dashboard, go to Settings > Reading.
Find "Search Engine Visibility." Is "Discourage search engines from indexing this site" checked? If so, uncheck it.
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Hmm, can you PM me the website?
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Yes, I am using Yoast, I looked through that as well... But nothing stood out...
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Hello HashtagHustler,
Sorry to hear that your web developer forgot a fundamental part of pushing a website live - and such an important piece of the process too (if you want to be listed in the search engines)!
Are you using any specific WP SEO plugins, such as Yoast SEO? It could be applying the noindex tag to specific pages.
You're on the right track by updating your robots.txt and general WP settings, now I would look into specific plugins.
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