Google Showing Blog Posts Aren't Indexable (Robots)

Site URL: https://www.gmatninja.com/blog/2017/03/01/drugs-to-improve-your-gmat-score

Hi, I have a client that has a ton of blog posts, and around 60 of them are not getting indexed. Google attributes this to the urls being marked no index (I provided one example). Anyone else seeing this? We have our blog posts toggled to be included in search results, so there's no great explanation for it.

Hi @LaurenWS - confirming, do you have access to this domain property in Google Search Console? If so, take a look at the Coverage report and confirm that the excluded URLs have the status "Excluded by 'noindex' tag"? In this report, you can see the last crawled date for the URLs listed. If it's a while ago, you could request reindexing for those URLs. This doesn't guarantee Google will rush to index them right away, but it's the best you can do.

Hope that helps.

Ed

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