Home page not indexing at Google

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    My home page does not seem to be indexing at Google. “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” under the Settings>Reading section of WordPress is not checked. Yet on the Rankmath>Analytics>Index Settings page it lists my “/” page 3 times (not sure why) and in the “Indexing Allowed” column it has a read X against each of the “/” pages. When I hover my mouse over the red X a little popup says “Blocked By Meta Tag”.

    My robots.txt file only has a few lines in it, I did not edit it in any way so I assume it was generated by Rankmath. It only contains the following lines:
    User-Agent:*
    Disallow:/wp-admin/
    Allow:/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
    Sitemap:https//indulgenceatkurmond.com.au/sitemap_index.xml

    Can you please let me know if this is an issue and how I can resolve it?

    Thanks

    Rudi

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  • Hello,

    I’m sorry to hear that you’re experiencing issues with your home page not indexing on Google. Thank you for providing detailed information about the problem you’re facing.

    Based on the information you’ve provided, it seems that the issue might be related to the meta tag blocking indexing. To resolve this, you can check the global settings in Rank Math SEO to ensure that there is no “noindex” tag present. You can do this by navigating to WordPress Dashboard → Rank Math SEO → Titles & Meta → Posts/Pages/Products/CPTs and ensuring that the “noindex” tag is not enabled.

    Additionally, you can also check for the presence of a disallow tag in your robots.txt file that might be preventing your page from being indexed. You can do this by going to WordPress Dashboard → Rank Math SEO → General Settings → Edit Robots.txt and ensuring that there are no rules in your robots.txt file that are blocking indexing.

    If you’re still facing issues after checking these settings, please let us know, and we’ll be happy to assist you further.

    We’re here to help!

    Sources:
    Why Google Hasn’t Indexed Your Post, Page, and/or Website? » Rank Math
    Rank Math Sitemap Issues and Their Fixes » Rank Math
    Discovered – Currently Not Indexed in Google Search Console » Rank Math
    How to Fix the “Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt” Error » Rank Math
    How to Fix ‘Page Indexed Without Content’ Issue in Google Search Console » Rank Math

    Anonymous
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    I have checked all the settings in this reply. Cannot find anything blocking indexing.

    Hello,

    Apologies for the inconvenience.

    We’ve checked your homepage, and it is already set to index. Also, your homepage is already showing on the search results page

    index

    If you’re getting it on your Analytics dashboard, then please follow the steps below to delete old analytics data and start a fresh import for troubleshooting:

    Rebuild

    After rebuilding the analytics index of posts, go to Rank Math > General Settings > Analytics, and under “Analytics Database”, click “Update Data Manually”.

    Once done, wait for the process to complete and the Analytics data should be updated.

    Hope that helps.

    Anonymous
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    Thanks it seems ok now. I guess it will take some time for real data to come in.

    Hello,
    
    You’re welcome.

    We are super happy that we have addressed your concern. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.
    
    If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.
    
    If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.
    
    Thank you.

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