No Index help

[Vetshopgroup]

Hi, I have alot of notices about webpages that are apparently blocked by no index robots, I look through the code on the site and cannot see any coding for this and am confused how to fix the problem. Help anyone?

[Vetshopgroup]

Thanks for your great help Sha!

[ShaMenz]

Hi Steven,

There are two different robot related warnings in your SEOmoz PRO App report. The second one refers to pages or directories blocked by a disallow statement in a robots.txt file.

Next step is to check whether you have a robots.txt file in place for your site and if so, then check to see if there are files or directories disallowed in the file.

If the robots.txt file is not an issue, then the your best course of action is to email the SEOmoz Help team direct - help [at] seomoz.org. Give them the details of your campaign and explain the problem and they will take a look at it for you.

Hope that helps,

Sha

[Vetshopgroup]

Thanks for you reply! I have looked at the meta tags and there is no meta noindex tag, this is where i am getting confused on how to make the page an indexed one? I would expect to see either of the meta tags you displayed earlier however they are not there? Thanks

[ShaMenz]

Hi Steven,

This message refers to a meta tag which appears in the head statement for the page.

the code looks like this:

OR

This tag tells crawlers not to index the page (or to remove the page from the index if it already appears there) and to either follow or not follow links on the page.

In most cases I would use noindex, follow as this allows any link juice being passed to the page to flow on through the site. The meta noindex tag is the most reliable way to ensure that pages are not indexed since it occurs at the page level. Other methods such as disallowing pages in a robots.txt file can be unreliable as crawlers that come to a page via an external link do not see the disallow statement, so will index the page.

The noindex tags on your pages may have been placed in order to exclude pages that were producing errors or are duplicates of other pages.

Hope that helps,

Sha