Unchecked the Discourage search engines from indexing

[Guest]

Finished building a website about a week ago, unchecked the “Discourage search engines from indexing” option the same day, installed GSC and requested indexing.

Got an email from Google saying that they cant index due to noindex tag. Double checked and all pages are indexable. For some reason, it seems Google still thinks I have a noindex tag on my website.

Anyone encountered this issue and know how to fix it? Why does this happen?

[Ray]

Clear cache, reset permalinks, recheck sitemap file

[Kevin]

As well as clearing cache, check for any remaining restrictions in meta tags, robots.txt, and .htaccess. Also settings in any installed SEO plugin as well as WP’s ‘discourage’ setting.

[Mick]

Google is not indexing anything at the moment from what I can see? Anyone else

[Conor]

some days i see 3k pages indexed the next day 1900 pages... you can never really look at any results during updates as everything is bouncing around so much. Check to see if you have www. and non www. versions?

[Tisha]

Clear your caches, on the site backend if Wordpress or any CMS AND clear the server cache (where you host).

[Rob]

I’m having an issue with google indexing currently since the ‘helpful content’ update. I would suggest getting screaming frog and double checking everything, you may have it set at the ht access level

[Batman]

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