Noindex prevents search engines from finding new URLs

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Noindex prevents search engines from finding new URLs #269

Closed Lucent closed 3 weeks ago

Lucent commented 1 month ago

Why was noindex added as a meta tag to the template? Search engines need to be able to find the new URL and this completely breaks that functionality.

ashmaroli commented 1 month ago

noindex rule in the meta tag means search engines are instructed to not add the current page (with the meta tag). In other words, you don't want redirect.html to be indexed.

Now, if there's another rule that says nofollow, then that can be an issue because this rule instructs the crawler to not go to the new URL.

Lucent commented 1 month ago

Then this was my mistake and you can close. Google kept giving me Webmaster Tools warnings as if it wouldn't follow these pages. Really just annoying GitHub Pages can't do 301.