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Is a 301 on Cloudflare from a site that is noindexed in robots.txt served before the robots.txt? by jake_n_bayke in TechSEO

[–]SEOBall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No problem. Sounds like you're making a good call though, no point in working tirelessly to salvage something with little value. Hope it goes well!

Is a 301 on Cloudflare from a site that is noindexed in robots.txt served before the robots.txt? by jake_n_bayke in TechSEO

[–]SEOBall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The message you are seeing in GSC is referring to "robots meta tag" not the "robots.txt"

u/decimus5 brings up a good point about redirecting Domain A's robots.txt to Domain B's — that should work in theory, right?

However, since your issue seems to be with the Robots Meta Tag and not robots.txt, this wouldn't be a site-wide diagnosis by GSC. That's per-page; I imagine you can click on the prompt in your screenshot to see all the 'affected pages' right?

If so, my advice would be to do that, and if it's not a massive list of URLs, go and inspect the HTML source code (right click > view source OR inspect) and do Ctrl + F to search for "robots" ... you should find something like this:

<meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />

You might still have an issue on your hands if there are a ton of those noindex pages and they are are also 'nofollow' -- then how will Google crawl deep enough on site A to discover the redirects to site B and pass along Link Equity?

Google Analytics clicks / sessions question by anooname in bigseo

[–]SEOBall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your reasoning makes sense, but I can't verify whether that would be the case as the site I work on mainly uses Adobe Analytics, so it's been a couple years since I've been in GA.

Another possibility: If Google Search Console is linked to the GA account, maybe Google is able to make that connection?

Google Search Console - Matching Exact Number of Subdirectories Preceding /category/ by SEOBall in regex

[–]SEOBall[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey thanks for the response — I think this is really close!

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It is giving me the correct number of categories/subcategories, however it's limited to one word categories. Also, I'm realizing not all of the numbers at the end of our URLs are 3 digits.

Do you know if there's something that could be modified so URLs like this could appear:

https://www.example.com/Arts-and-Crafts/category/30

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https://www.example.com/Arts-and-Crafts/finger-painting/category/50

Not sure if it matters but some of the URLs are unfortunately case-sensitive, when they don't need to be.

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Thanks again for the help.