NO Alert when “Discourage search engines from indexing” is on!

#748747
  • Resolved Anonymous
    Rank Math free

    I have already hit this issue a couple of times, and this most recent case just confirmed it — RankMath does NOT issue any kind of alerts when the WordPress’s “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” setting is on. This is possibly the most egregious of all omissions that any SEO plugin worth its salt can do! An no it’s a fluke — this last case, I litterally checked every RankMath UI to confirm if I’m missing some kind of an alert — and no, there no alerts whatsoever, when the the “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” feature is clearly set! I had to discover this from the Google Search Console telling me that every single page is blocked from indexing, all the while RankMath tells me that everything is fine!

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  • Anonymous
    Rank Math free

    I had it off. Try now?

    Hello,

    Since this is not supposed to happen under normal circumstances (with the latest update), could you please provide a staging site with admin access and FTP details, so we may troubleshoot further.

    We look forward to having this issue resolved.

    Thank you

    Anonymous
    Rank Math free

    So I have tested it again, and so far it seems to show the notice even if the no-index flag has been set prior to RankMath being installed/enabled. I will keep an eye on this issue and see if there is a particular way to reproduce this issue, and will follow up if it comes up again.

    Regarding the error messages showing in RankMath interface, since you weren’t able to consistently access my local environment, I just tried it in a standard environment, and I’m unable to reproduce those errors. So, I’m guessing this might be something specific to my local environment.

    So, essentially, the issue(s) seems to be resolved now. One thing I would strongly recommend though is making that notice WAY more prominent. For a VAST majority of site owners/web masters, having the no-index flag represents EXTREME risk, and the current subtle notice is not representing that sufficiently. Check how Yoast does that for example.

    Hello,

    We just installed Yoast SEO on a local installation to verify the message they are showing and it seems that the wording is different and the color in the message is red.

    We are going to share this feedback with our developers and if they decide to modify the notification to be more prominent we’ll let you know of the same.

    Regarding the particular issue that started this ticket, if you notice a particular use case where the notification is not showing you can always ping us again in this ticket.

    Thank you.

    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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