Blog pages are being noindexed

[Daniel71]

Our blog pages are not being indexed by Google. Upon inspection we are finding the following code inside the content_for_header block:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">

How can we stop this from appearing?

[sophiedooley54]

first.. change that robot.txt into follow and index

generate sitemap for all pages of website

submit it to webmaster 

your pages will be crawled and indexed soon

[Daniel71]

Unfortunately, this is code being written into the web page by Shopify - not entries in robots.txt.

[Daniel71 · Accepted solution]

It turns out that the developer who had created the blog page had created a metafield (namespace = "seo", key="hidden", value=1) to mark it as noindex during the development period, and hadn't undone that when we went live. Once that metafield was deleted from the blog, the meta tag was removed from the Shopify-generated HTML.

[acycooly]

Hi could you please tell me how it was solved i have the same problem 

Googlebot smartphone

Crawl allowed?

Yes

Page fetch

Successful

Indexing allowed?



No: 'noindex' detected in 'robots' meta tag

[Daniel71]

We just removed the metafield. In our case, the problem was self-inflicted. If you are having the same problem, and don't have the metafield, then I don't know what you should do.