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Hi Fubra,

You can disavow at a domain level, so no regex is required (and I don't think it will work).

Just add "domain:" before the domain, eg. domain:spammysite.com

Marie Haynes wrote a good guide to using the disavow tool here if you need any further information: https://moz.com/blog/guide-to-googles-disavow-tool

Cheers,

David

Hi Chuck,

It's strange to me that the "NOINDEX, FOLLOW" would be automatically added to these pages.

The canonical tag is correct so I wouldn't use "noindex" here - it's redundant.

John Mueller from Google recently explained why canonical and "noindex" shouldn't be used together: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-noindex-rel-canonical-confusion-26079.html

Cheers,

David

Hi Bruce,

There was a bit of a debate about this recently - whether a cross-domain canonical could be a new type of negative SEO attack: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-negative-seo-via-canonicals-redirects-25614.html

But I personally don't think it would be a successful negative SEO strategy.

Having disavowed the domain, I think you have taken all the precautions you can and I wouldn't be too worried about this having a negative impact on your traffic and rankings.

Cheers,

David

Hi DigitalMarketingSEO,

This sounds like it's Google having some issues with your React website.

There are plenty of good SEO for Javascript guides out there that I would recommending reading through:
https://www.elephate.com/blog/ultimate-guide-javascript-seo/
https://builtvisible.com/javascript-framework-seo/
https://www.briggsby.com/dealing-with-javascript-for-seo

How did the "Fetch and Render" look? Was Googlebot able to see your page exactly as a human user would?

Can you share the URL here (or PM me)? I've done a lot of work on JS sites and I'd be happy to take a quick look to see I can give some more specific advice.

Cheers,

David

Hi Christian,

The current robots.txt shouldn't be blocking those URLs.

Did you or someone else recently change the robots.txt file? If so, give Google a few days to re-crawl your site.

Also, can you check what happens when you do a fetch and render on one of the blocked posts in Search Console? Do you have issues there?

Cheers,

David

Hi Eddy,

Edit: this was already answered before I could post my reply. But I've left the example.

The issue with the meta robots tag is that you are using curly quotation marks around robots and noindex:
You have:
“robots**” content=“noindex”/>
Instead of:
name="robots" content="noindex"**/>

This will fix your issue.

Cheers,

David