Description tag not showing in the SERPs because page is blocked by Robots, but the page isn't blocked. Any help?

[mac2233]

While checking some SERP results for a few pages of a site this morning I noticed that some pages were returning this message instead of a description tag,

A description for this result is not avaliable because of this site's robot.s.txt

The odd thing is the page isn't blocked in the Robots.txt. The page is using Yoast SEO Plugin to populate meta data though.

Anyone else had this happen and have a fix?

[gazzerman1]

Can you check something for me please?

Log in to wp-admin

Go to Setting then Privacy

Check if “Ask search engines not to index this site.” is set to ON

[AndrewClark]

I've seen people with similar issues before and it's been a small but fatal error in the robots.txt file itself. Can you please share it here and I'll advise further if needed.

[mac2233]

It's pretty standard

User-agent: *

Disallow: /wp-admin/

Disallow: /wp-includes/

[mac2233]

No, it's not on. The site is indexed, just certain description tags aren't.

[AndrewClark]

Certainly doesn't appear to be any issues there. It's difficult to determine the issue without taking a look closer but its not the robots.txt file and if your site is fully indexed then I can't offer more without seeing the site.

Would you be willing to share the URL?

[Milian]

Could the pages have been blocked in robotos.txt in the past?  It can take an age for Google to re-index pages a proper after having been blocked previously.

[Christy-Correll]

Hi there! Has this issue been resolved? We'd love to have an update, thanks! (Christy)

[DavidFaltz]

I am having the same issue currently with one of my clients sites. No robots.txt is or was ever in place. I can not find any issues at all that would cause the problem. Was wondering if you every had any resolution to this? Client also uses Yoast.