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Google Not Indexing (noindex) Article Pages
I was wondering why Google would not index the article pages and then I realised that there is a code that is telling Google to do that on those pages:
<meta name=“robots” content=“noindex, nofollow”>
I found this line from:
/textpattern/lib/txplib_head.php
and I changed it to:
<meta name=“robots” content=“index, follow” />
Which would change the nofollow to —> follow. But no index stays the same. How can I remove all “noindex” meta tags?
Thank you.
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Re: Google Not Indexing (noindex) Article Pages
Hi there,
/textpattern/lib/txplib_head.php
is PHP code for powering the Textpattern admin area (control panel), you shouldn’t be changing that at all – change it back unless you want to risk Google indexing your control panel pages.
If you are referring to the public-side theme, then click join the pages editor, select default
page and make sure its robots code in the head
matches this:
<txp:if_search>
<meta name="robots" content="none">
<txp:else />
<txp:if_category>
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow, noodp, noydir">
<txp:else />
<txp:if_author>
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow, noodp, noydir">
<txp:else />
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow, noodp, noydir">
</txp:if_author>
</txp:if_category>
</txp:if_search>
Then select the archive
page and make sure its robots code matches this:
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow, noodp, noydir">
That should fix any problems you have. That’s how it’s done in the core theme files anyway.
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Re: Google Not Indexing (noindex) Article Pages
Alright. I got it working now! Thank you so much for your kind, prompt and thorough answer philwareham.
Last edited by Tobias (2014-11-25 14:20:03)
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