Google On Search Console Noindex Detected Errors – Search Engine Journal
John Mueller responded to a Reddit discussion about a ‘noindex detected’ error in Search Console, suggesting possible causes and solutions.
Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Reddit about a seemingly false ‘noindex detected in X-Robots-Tag HTTP header’ error reported in Google Search Console for pages that do not have that specific X-Robots-Tag or any other related directive or block. Mueller suggested some possible reasons, and multiple Redditors provided reasonable explanations and solutions.
Noindex Detected
The person who started the Reddit discussion described a scenario that may be familiar to many. Google Search Console reports that it couldn’t index a page because it was blocked not from indexing the page (which is different from blocked from crawling). Checking the page reveals no presence of a noindex meta element and there is no robots.txt blocking the crawl.
Here is what the described as their situation:
- “GSC shows “…
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