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September 20, 2014 at 2:41 pm #125165PavleMember
Hello,
I already submitted a support ticket for this, but I want to know if anyone here might have the same problem.
My SEO by Yoast settings are all no following category pages. However I see them indexed in Google.
http://bit.ly/1DpiEVFSeptember 20, 2014 at 2:59 pm #125166PorterParticipantA few guesses:
Was this site live before? If so, it'll take awhile for Google to ignore the pages it already has indexed.
Search engines don't HAVE to pay attention to the no-follow, did you get any decent traffic to those pages, which might have had Google ignore the no-follow?
In your.htaccess file, is the no-follow shown? "Disallow user agents", or something along those lines.
September 20, 2014 at 3:13 pm #125168PavleMemberHey Porter,
Thanks for trying to help out, I appreciate you.
Here are the categories I am having trouble with.
All options have been set correctly in SEO by YOAST for sure, ever since my site was launched on Sample theme and have´t been changed ever since.
I am not that familiar with the htaccess.
Here is the part with "user" keyword, not sure if that´s what you mean?
Here is whole htaccess folder
September 21, 2014 at 5:13 am #125198NickParticipantThe pages you link to are not category pages – they are the subpages of the blog archive. That's why checking the “noindex, follow” box in the category settings page has no effect on those pages.
If you want to prevent the subpages of archives from being indexed by Google, you can go to SEO > Titles & Meta and check the “Noindex subpages of archives” checkbox:
Then, after Google recrawls your site, the
/blog/page/2
pages will no longer be indexed by Google.September 21, 2014 at 5:15 am #125200PavleMemberHey Nick,
Thanks for the screen shoot.
Unfortunately this has already been enabled, so that´s not the issue.I contacted the support, and it appears that when default WP theme is activated these pages are no idexed. However with the Genesis Sample they get indexed.
September 21, 2014 at 5:50 am #125201NickParticipantHi Pavle
I've just installed the Genesis Sample theme and Yoast SEO and ticked the “Noindex subpages of archives“ box, and I'm seeing the
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"/>
tag as expected in the source of blog subpages:Are you creating the blog page by going to Settings > Reading and setting the Posts page to “Blog”?
If, instead, you are using the “Blog” template that Genesis provides, then this explains why the noindex meta is not appearing on that page – I believe that Yoast SEO only adds the noindex to ”archive” pages, which would exclude the blog page template. If you set the blog page by using the Settings > Reading option instead of using the Blog template (i.e. change the template for the blog page back to “Default Template” after changing the Settings > Reading option), you will find that the meta robots tag starts to appear on your
/blog/page/2
pages and that Google will exclude them.September 21, 2014 at 11:30 am #125218PavleMemberHoly smack!
Nick, this was pretty close to what happened to my site.
So in past I had home and blog. Where as now I have only homepage which is blog.
However my evil twin brother who lives inside me somehow forgot to erase the blog page which was set as "blog template".
Everything works now. This is certainly not a genesis problem.
Nick, you saved me. Not only from indexing these pages in Google but I think you discovered one of the reasons I was recently hit by Google. I believe this made lots of duplicate content.
I can´t thank you enough Nick! I really owe you a beer or two, you name it!
and damn you my evil twin brother for making things worse 🙂
September 21, 2014 at 12:37 pm #125226NickParticipantGreat to hear that worked! Happy to help.
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