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    • rolls123
      rolls123 last edited by

      When i get my crawl diagnostics, I am getting a blocked by Meta Robot, which means that my page is not being indexed in the search engines... obviously this is a major issue for organic traffic!!!

      What does it actually mean, and how can i fix it?

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      • NakulGoyal
        NakulGoyal last edited by

        It sounds like you have a Noindex tag in your website source. Open up your website, View Source (search for Noindex). That's telling bots not to crawl and index your website. You might want to remove it. If it's a CMS, it might be in the header include file/template. If you post the URL of your website, I can check for you.

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        • rolls123
          rolls123 @NakulGoyal last edited by

          Thank you for your help. It is a word press site- don't know if that makes a difference? It is www.airlinegamesatc.com Thanks again! 🙂

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