# Robots Meta Tags On or Off?

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/robots-meta-tags-on-or-off/56454>\
**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [June 1, 2026, 10:31am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/robots-meta-tags-on-or-off/56454 "2026-06-01T10:31:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Printdevil](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/printdevil/32/29847_2.png) [@Printdevil](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Printdevil)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2026, 10:31am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/robots-meta-tags-on-or-off/56454/1 "2026-06-01T10:31:38Z")

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![PHOTO-2026-06-01-11-09-18](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/2/d/2d76c03807b68abb1493d4946c4a30854c45e5de.jpeg)

I have an old RapidWeaver 9 project which I have updated for my World Cup 2026 competition which I do want to appear in search engines. I am getting emails from the Google Search Console to say…

“New reason preventing your pages from being indexed  
Search Console has identified that some pages on your site are not being indexed due to the following new reason:  
Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag  
If this reason is not intentional, we recommend that you fix it in order to get affected pages indexed and appearing on Google.”

I can see that some of the listed pages have been deleted so it may resolve itself.

Should I uncheck any of the Meta Tags boxes or just ignore these messages?

Any advice gratefully received.

David

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**Author:** ![differentdan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/differentdan/32/33530_2.png) [@differentdan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/differentdan)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2026, 10:35am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/robots-meta-tags-on-or-off/56454/2 "2026-06-01T10:35:26Z")

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Hi @Printdevil

If you want the search engines to index your pages, what you have in the screenshot is correct. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Printdevil](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/printdevil/32/29847_2.png) [@Printdevil](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Printdevil)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2026, 11:50am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/robots-meta-tags-on-or-off/56454/3 "2026-06-01T11:50:23Z")

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That’s great Dan,

Can you tell me what each item refers to…

Enable Robot Meta Tags

Index This Page

Follow Links

I am just wondering if turning some of these off on certain pages of my site might fix the alert messages I am getting from the Google Search Console.

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**Author:** ![differentdan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/differentdan/32/33530_2.png) [@differentdan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/differentdan)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2026, 11:53am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/robots-meta-tags-on-or-off/56454/4 "2026-06-01T11:53:28Z")

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Enable Robot Meta Tags - Enables the actual Meta tag on the page

Index This Page - Tells search engines to actually index the page

Follow Links - Tells search engines to follow any links you have on the page to their respective source.

Regarding what you are seeing in Google Search Console:

```auto
Search Console has identified that some pages on your site are not being indexed due to the following new reason:
Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag

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Is it telling you which pages it’s seeing a noindex tag on? Can you link to a couple of them?

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**Author:** ![Printdevil](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/printdevil/32/29847_2.png) [@Printdevil](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Printdevil)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2026, 11:59am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/robots-meta-tags-on-or-off/56454/5 "2026-06-01T11:59:52Z")

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![Page indexing](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/c/0/c01ea0c49bcfa0e89ea7d9673edf754da514dc11.jpeg)

These are the pages it cannot index but these pages don’t actually exist on the server any more. I have told the Console to Re-validate so maybe it will resolve itself.

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**Author:** ![differentdan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/differentdan/32/33530_2.png) [@differentdan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/differentdan)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2026, 12:04pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/robots-meta-tags-on-or-off/56454/6 "2026-06-01T12:04:20Z")

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Ok if those pages don’t exist anymore then nothing to worry about, Google should update eventually when it rescans/revalidates your site.