How to Noindex RSS feed page

Hello, I’m sorry to hear about the issue you are facing with your RSS feed pages being indexed by Google. To set a noindex tag for your RSS feed pages, you can follow these steps:

1. Identify the Pages: First, identify the specific RSS feed pages that are being indexed by Google. You can do this by checking your Google Search Console under the “Not indexed” section and looking for pages with the status “Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag.”

2. Remove NoIndex Tag: Once you have identified the pages, you need to remove the NoIndex tag from those pages. You can do this by accessing the individual pages and changing the Robots Meta tag from “Noindex” to “Index.”

3. Check Global Settings: Additionally, ensure that the global settings in Rank Math are not preventing indexing. You can check this at WordPress Dashboard → Rank Math SEO → Titles & Meta → Posts/Pages/Products/CPTs.

4. Search Engine Visibility: Make sure that the “Discourage Search engines…” option is not enabled at WordPress Dashboard → Settings → Reading. If this option is enabled, it can prevent indexing of your website.

If you still face difficulties setting a noindex tag for your RSS feed pages, please reply to this ticket, and a human agent from the Rank Math Support team will assist you further. Thank you for raising this concern.

Sources:
Fix Excluded by NoIndex Tag – Google Search Console Status » Rank Math
Fix Excluded by NoIndex Tag – Google Search Console Status » Rank Math
Why Google Hasn’t Indexed Your Post, Page, and/or Website? » Rank Math
Why Isn’t My URL Included in the Sitemap? » Rank Math
Using Rank Math’s ‘Quick Actions’ Admin Menu Item

Hello,

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

Feed URLs are only the basic code versions of your actual content pages. You will not want these pages to be indexed as Google doesn’t like them and would most not likely not show them to users anyway.

Right now, there is no default option to set the feed URLs to Noindex but if you want, you can disable them on your site, you can follow this guide:
https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/wordpress-disable-rss-feed/

Alternatively, you can disallow bots from crawling the feed URLs from the robots.txt file at WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > General Settings > Edit Robots.txt

User-Agent: *
Disallow: */feed*

Once done, give Google some time to recrawl your site to reflect the changes.

Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
 
Thank you.