MOZ crawl report says category pages blocked by meta robots but theyr'e not?

[SamCUK]

I've just run a SEOMOZ crawl report and it tells me that the category pages on my site such as http://www.top-10-dating-reviews.com/category/online-dating/ are blocked by meta robots and have the meta robots tag noindex,follow.

This was the case a couple of days ago as I run wordpress and am using the SEO Category updater plugin. By default it appears it makes categories noindex, follow. Therefore I edited the plugin so that the default was index, follow as I want google to index the category pages so that I can build links to them.

When I open the page in a browser and view source the tags show as index, follow which adds up. Why then is the SEOMOZ report telling me they are still noindex,follow?

Presumably the crawl is in real time and should pick up the new follow tag or is it perhaps because its using data from an old crawl?

As yet these pages aren't indexed by google.

Any help is much appreciated!

Thanks

Sam.

[Andropenis_Australia]

And is your robots.txt file inline with the on page directives?

If all is good I would just put it down to a moz error, sometimes you just need to be aware of the issues and warnings rather than act on them.

All the best

[SamCUK]

Thanks for your reply. The Robots.txt reads:

User-agent: *Disallow: /wp-admin/Disallow: /wp-includes/ Sitemap: http://www.top-10-dating-reviews.com/sitemap.xml.gz

As fas as I'm aware this is okay?

Sam.

[MeganSingley]

Hi Sam! This is Megan from SEOmoz. I've had our engineers take a look at your campaign and everything looks good now. Do you know if you made any changes today that would fix the 'blocked by meta robots' issue? Your next crawl that comes through should reflect the new information - showing the previously blocked URLs as "index, follow". If you're still running in to any problems, feel free to shoot us a message to help@seomoz.org and we'll check it out!

Cheers!

[SamCUK]

Hi Megan,

Thanks for your reply. I'll run a crawl now and hopefully all will be okay.

Sam.