Google Indexes Subpages After Upgrading to Newspaper 6

I have come to know that Google has started indexing subpages of the blog after upgrading to Newspaper 6. I already have enabled “Noindex subpages of archives” in WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin. However, I don’t see Noindex, Follow tag in subpages of my blog.

My blog is igeeksblog.com

That is controlled by Yoast, so you may want to check the docs for that.
Perhaps try checking the “force write” option. Check to make sure those are not being added to your sitemap also, from the sitemap options.

“Force write” is already checked and those are not being added to sitemap as well. This issue is started after upgrading to Newspaper 6.

Regardless, the theme doesn’t impact how the plugin writes to your header files with Yoast. Do you have console errors on your page? Conflict with another plugin?

Link to a page for example might help?

Sounds stupid, but you might try deactivating then reactivating the Yoast plugin; resave your permalinks, clear all your cache on server/CDN, etc.

Lucian says in following thread:

https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/problem-with-theme-and-yoast-wordpress-seo/

The theme uses this pagination function: http://screencast.com/t/JfclCbIZpUob which is different from WordPress’.

Is there anything we can make changes in theme pagination in Newspaper 6?

I think he covered that in that post …

I’m not having this issue, which is odd. But normally you can have pagination for archives, and simply add the meta settings in Yoast to deal with that — it does work.

For home page, you should *not* have pagination from front page unless you’re using old style blog layout; and even then not ideal since it’s just duplication of all your category content.

Sorry of I’m no help on this 🙂

Thanks a lot Lucian,

However, noindex in the rel attribute of a hyperlink tag does not do anything. Is there any way to use noindex in the meta tag in the element?

Here is the ref: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/Aq7jie2Ktog

Is there any one who can guide on this?

But I want to use meta tag like:
<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex,follow”/>

I simply don’t want to get indexed those subpages.

• This reply was modified 11 years by dhvanesh.

Can’t you just set the noindex of subpages option in Yoast SEO?

Otherwise you would need to do something like edit the header to do an “if is page greater than one, the echo meta” conditional expression.

Or, follow best practice and don’t do “next page” from home page at all; and only do from categories which is normal best practice where you can control the meta with Yoast SEO very simply. There should be no homepage/2 homepage/3 homepage/4.

That option has been enabled since I have installed this plugin: http://www.screencast.com/t/WRsJtTiuuDC

But somehow it’s not working after updating to Newspaper 6.

Is there anyone who can help to fix this issue?

It works just perfect on categories pages and even subpages of categories. Have a look:

http://www.igeeksblog.com/category/ios/ios-8/page/2/

But there is a problem from homepage subpages only.

I have analyzed some websites running N6 and they have such issues. Demo of Newspaper theme is on subdomain. So I guess there isn’t issue from subdomain, catogires or tag pages. Only from with homepage subpages.

• This reply was modified 11 years by dhvanesh.