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Dan,

Yes, I had low quality content and as I fix it up I am trying to add it back. I unfortunately noindexed, nofollowed about 100 posts. After I changed to noindex/follow, which is what I wish I had done with all of them.

To set the posts to get re-indexed I have to select - "index" "always include" and when it comes to the Meta Robots Advanced I select "None" and change nofollow to follow and the post changes to allow it to be indexed turning the little color ball from blue to green, but the nofollow does not change and it remains noarchive as well. I have tried this over and over and still will not let me follow with the post again. I did check the source code as well and verified that is shows nofollow,noarchive.

I am using the latest version of WP and the WPSEO plugin as well.

I have attached a screenshot of what my settings are after trying to save a noindex,nofollow blog post.

thank you

Mike

aftersaving.jpg

Dan,

No this issue is still not resolved and I am hoping at this point I am not missing a small detail.

I noindexed and nofollowed numerous low quality pages. I have been fixing them up and when I go back to change the settings in the WPSEO tab I can successfully select the index portion of meta robots. But, I cannot get the nofollow to return to follow.

I realize Google has to crawl the site to reindex and the Google Link submission tool is faster, but that isn't the problem. It is getting those pages to show as wanting to be "followed."

I have no robots.txt file or am using the default WP file and my WP reading settings is allowing search engines to index the site.

I also have default WPSEO blog post settings as index/follow

I hope this makes my issue clearer?

thank you for your response.

Mike

thank you.

But the issue is I have used the Yoast meta advanced to noindex/nofollow numerous blog posts. Now that I have corrected them, I can reindex them with the same SEO tab in each blog post. But, the nofollow will not go back to follow or default.

I was trying to figure this out and the only solution was to copy the post to a new blog using the original url and delete the old post once I am done.

Not a great work around, but not sure how to get the advanced tab to show that I want to follow a post again.

Yes, bought the yearly subscription to ScreamingFrog and using it to fix issues on your site.

thank you again

Mike

Thomas,

I have the meta setup correctly in the plugin. I guess I was confused that the follow would automatically apply once I reversed the meta robots to index, always, but it still shows as nofollow. I have all blog posts as default index, follow.

I think you are saying Google Bot actually has to crawl to change the nofollow to follow?

thank you

Mike

Hello,

I unindexed numerous blog low quality blog posts and nofollowed them at the same time using the Advanced meta tab for the Yoast WPSEO plugin. I am trying to reindex them, which I figured out and can successfully do,

What I cannot figure out is these posts will not return to follow status and remain nofollow. I have been recreating the blog posts, but this is very time consuming.

Is there some way to do this without have to reduplicate a new blog post?

I Googled this and searched MOZ with no luck.

thank you

Mike

Alan,

Excellent answer and we have been seeing slimmed down categories in our competitors, where they use tags to refine each post.

We are in need of some custom SEO consulting and training. We had a link audit and I am working on the results from that as far as Disavow goes. But, we need some specific site structure help, correct content creation help, and training.

Do you have any available services and available time in the near future for those services if we are a good fit?

thank you

Mike

Hello,

We have a wordpress blog that has around 250 categories. Due to our platform we have a hierarchy structure for 3 separate stores. For example iPhone > Apps > Books.

Placing a blog post in the books category automatically places it into iPhone and iPhone/Apps category, causing 3 instances of any blog post in this category.

Is this an issue?

I have seen 2 schools of thought on categories, 1 index follow and 2 noindex follow. I know some of our categories get indexed, but with so many, maybe it is better to noindex them.

We also considered reducing our categories to 10 to 12 and use tags to provide the indexed site navigation as follows: Reviews  (category) iPhone Book App, iPhone App Store (tags) but this seems a little redundant?

Anyone want to take this on?

thank you

Mike

Nakul,

we are going with the platform for SEO key rich urls, for example:

iphone/app/books, ipad/applications/books, android/apps/books/ and this would go for the 30+ additional categories for each device, which is primarily the same as the original App Stores categorization.

We are using WordPress, Yoast plugin for SEO, but have just now begun to focus on a correct taxonomy that makes sense to users as well as Google, showing a theme across our content.

I would love to use the urls: iphone/apps/books, ipad/apps/books, and android/apps/books/ but I am not sure how to do this technically in WordPress, since you can only have 1 original url for any category, tag, post or page.

Also, do you have any suggestions for tools to query what our visitors are searching for on our site?

thank you

Mike

Hello,

We are trying to figure out the best way to categorize our app review website. We have 3 platforms, iPhone, iPad and Android and each platform has several sub categories and numerous apps subcategories totaling around 50 to 60 categories for each platform.

Any suggestions how to do this properly?

thank you

Mike

Okay, again, think with the mindset there is no stupid question when reading this next one

When you say "reviews and videos" would live in their own categories....do you mean, subordinate to apps  or, equal to apps with the name "app-reviews" "app-videos"

If you have not figured out by now, categories are really confusing to me!

thank you

Mike