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Title: Google Search Console doesn't like Checkout page set to noindex
Post by: modernmagic on April 03, 2022, 18:52:12 PM
Google Search Console has detected:

Submitted URL marked 'noindex'

for

https://www.domain.com/en/checkout

Even if I set the checkout menu item's / metadata / Robots / to "index" it does not affect the checkout page's <meta name=robots content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW, NOARCHIVE, NOSNIPPET"/>

I'm assuming that there was a reason VM put this hardcoded robot content in the checkout PHP.  But I still need to resolve this coverage issue in Google Search Console to make the client happy.

What do you think is the best way to deal with this?
Title: Re: Google Search Console doesn't like Checkout page set to noindex
Post by: Studio 42 on April 03, 2022, 22:33:52 PM
checkout page s not good for seo. So od not add it to goggle search index
Title: Re: Google Search Console doesn't like Checkout page set to noindex
Post by: Jumbo! on April 04, 2022, 09:08:04 AM
You need to exclude the checkout page menu item from your sitemap.
Title: Re: Google Search Console doesn't like Checkout page set to noindex
Post by: pinochico on April 04, 2022, 18:18:09 PM
For cart we use "no index" too, is the right option.
But important - url for cart we don't send into sitemaps.
Title: SOLVED Re: Google Search Console doesn't like Checkout page set to noindex
Post by: modernmagic on April 17, 2022, 02:02:31 AM
I made sure it was not in the sitemap.

GSC Validation passed

Thank you everyone.