Noindex will not clear in the Rank Math area of code on home page.

Hello,

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

Sorry about the confusion with the Rank Bot earlier.

This tag you mentioned is shown when you are logged in to your website admin.

You’ll notice at the WP Admin top bar when you are viewing any page of your website, that there is a Rank Math icon that provides shortcuts to options available in the Rank Math settings and tools.

Part of the shortcut available is the option to quickly mark or set the page you are viewing as “No Index” or “No follow” as shown in the image below:

What you see when you are viewing the source code of your webpage is the HTML output of the wp Admin top bar.

This does not set the webpage or your entire website with the ‘noindex’ or ‘nofollow’ tag.

You can view your website or the webpage in incognito mode or view the page when you have signed out of your WordPress dashboard to confirm this.

Hope this clarifies the issue for you and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

Thank you.

Hello,

What you are seeing is not something that is setting the website’s robots meta settings to noindex, it’s just a couple of settings that change the robots metadata when clicked.

That is some HTML markup that is added to the WordPress admin bar and it has in no way an effect on the indexing of the website as that is controlled by a single source, which is the robots metadata.

You can pass any URL from your website through an external resource to check the robots metadata and you’ll see it displayed correctly: https://www.seoreviewtools.com/bulk-meta-robots-checker/

Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.

Hello,

Sure, that is fine. But as we mentioned before, the “no-index” you see is not a noindex tag. This is how a noindex tag looks like:

<meta name="robots" content="follow, noindex" />

And this is the tag you found in your website’s source:

<li id=’wp-admin-bar-rank-math-no-index’ class=”mark-page-as”>As NoIndex<li id=’wp-admin-bar-rank-math-no-follow’ class=”mark-page-as”>

This “no-index” is the HTML/CSS for the Rank Math admin bar, as explained here. This HTML does not have any effect on the indexability of your website – that is controlled by the content of your robots tag <meta name="robots".

If you still want to use the Rank Math plugin and believe we do not understand the issue because we do not see the complete picture, you can share your website login with us temporarily, and we’ll be happy to investigate the issue further.

Thank you for your patience and cooperation

Hello,

If we understand this correctly, are you saying that you are aware that the admin bar HTML that you’re seeing is harmless but you are looking to remove it regardless and you’re unable to? If that is correct, please note that this admin bar HTML cannot be removed. But it is different from the noindex robots tag that is used to communicate to search engines about the indexability of a page – in case that is what you’re worried about. This one is harmless and is only an HTML output of our WP Admin topbar.

Also, you should only see this harmless admin bar HTML if you are logged in as an admin – if you see the HTML when logged out, please let us know so we can investigate it.

BTW, for reference, this is the harmless admin bar HTML:

<li id=’wp-admin-bar-rank-math-no-index’ class=”mark-page-as”>As NoIndex<li id=’wp-admin-bar-rank-math-no-follow’ class=”mark-page-as”>

This is the real noindex robots tag that is used to communicate with search engines about the indexability of the page:

<meta name="robots" content="follow, noindex" />

I believe this issue might just be a confusion between the two. If you are certain that you are seeing the real noindex robots tag, you can share your website URL with us so we can help take a look. If you are seeing the admin bar HTML instead, please note that it is harmless and you do not need to worry about it. If you want to remove it regardless – I’m afraid, you can’t. The admin bar HTML is a part of the Rank Math plugin file and you can only remove it by deactivating the Rank Math plugin.

The problem was this, when I turned off the no index tags no matter if it was on the page settings (WordPress and RankMath), the option at the top of WordPress, the WordPress settings themselves, any option in your plugin settings, or anything place where you or WordPress had the option to turn off the no index, your plugin wasn’t removing the code. It still remained even when I changed the settings.

The issue is that you are referring to a different no-index tag here. The admin bar HTML contains the word “no-index” multiple times but it is not the noindex robots tag, and you cannot “turn off” the admin bar HTML.

As you can see below, this is YOUR code. This is clearly a problem with YOUR plugin. Even if I removed your plugin from my website, this code still remains.

<li id=’wp-admin-bar-rank-math-no-index’ class=”mark-page-as”>As NoIndex<li id=’wp-admin-bar-rank-math-no-follow’ class=”mark-page-as”>

The code you shared is the admin bar HTML. Since this admin bar HTML is part of the Rank Math plugin core, you can’t remove it unless you deactivate the Rank Math plugin (PS: you will only see it when logged in). If the admin bar HTML is still in your website’s source code after you have deactivated the Rank Math plugin, please clear your website and browser cache and try again.

I have gone through the settings > reading, I have gone through the title and meta settings in Rank Math, I have adjusted the home page settings in Rank Math and in the pages section of WordPress, I have gone through the robots settings in Rank Math, and done everything I can find available in your forums and videos. Still this problem remains.

All of these settings and options are for modifying the noindex robots tag, which as we have explained is different from the admin bar HTML code you mentioned you are seeing. The admin bar HTML is harmless and cannot be removed.

In any case, since you have removed the Rank Math plugin, we’re unable to look into this further. But if you’re still interested in using Rank Math, you can reactivate the plugin and share your website URL and maybe a loom.com video that goes into the issue more in-depth so we can help investigate and resolve the issue. We’d really love to help resolve this issue completely.

Thank you for your patience and cooperation

Hello,

Okay, sure that’s fine. Thank you for your feedback on the issue.

This ticket will be closed now, but you can always open a new one if you have any other questions or concerns. We are here to help you with anything related to Rank Math.

We appreciate your patience and cooperation throughout this process.