Author pages not respecting nofollow tags

#10556
  • Resolved Anonymous

    6 years, 6 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Good evening,

    We have defined the noindex attribute for the author pages= https://seoalive.com/author/davidkaufmann/

    However, they are not being respected on the page and they are shown as index,follow despite being correctly configured.

    Could you please help?

    Thank you!

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  • Michael Davis

    6 years, 6 months ago

    Rank Math pro

    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

    I have been able to reproduce this bug and this has been reported to our developers. At the moment, you can add the following code on your theme’s functions.php file to fix this:

    /**
 * Rank Math filtering of author archives robots meta data.
 *
 * @param array $robots The meta robots directives.
 */
add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/robots', function( $robots ) {
	if(is_author()){
		$robots['index'] = "noindex";
                $robots['follow'] = "nofollow";
	}
	return $robots;
});

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

    ​​​​​​​

    Anonymous

    6 years, 6 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Will wait for your plugin update. Thank you! 🙂

    Michael Davis

    6 years, 6 months ago

    Rank Math pro

    Hi there,

    Thanks for the follow up.

    Great! Feel free to contact us should you run into any other issues.

    Thank you.

    Pratik

    6 years, 5 months ago

    Hello,

    Can you please update your plugin to the latest version i.e v1.0.30.2 and see if the issue is still happening?

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

    Anonymous

    6 years, 5 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Does not work yet. It still says “follow, index”.

    You can check this out here= https://seoalive.com/author/davidkaufmann/

    Thank you!

    Michael Davis

    6 years, 5 months ago

    Rank Math pro

    Hi there,

    Thanks for the follow up.

    This feature works correctly on my end. Would you mind heading over to Rank Math > Titles & Meta > Authors and hit save once while the noindex option has been checked?

    If the issue persists, please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.
    Sensitive Data Section

    It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/

    You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/

    We really look forward to helping you.

    RankBot

    6 years, 5 months ago

    Hello,

    Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.

    If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.

    Thank you.

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