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Easy Ways to Resolve Index Warning Message Errors in Search Console

Resolving Index Warning Messages in Search Console - A few weeks ago I was confused by the  Index Warning Message in Search Console which made me have to find a way to resolve the warning. This warning appears because the work/function of Robot.txt is less than optimal.

By default the form/format of Robot.txt itself is as follows:

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /

Sitemap: https://www.domain_anda.com/sitemap.xml

This warning will appear if your blog has a navigation menu, breadcrumb, numbering navigation, label widget and archive widget. Why is that? Because Google bots or Google robots will continue to crawl your blog through the functions above.

To overcome this warning, you only need to change the form/format of Robot.txt so that Google bot will crawl all the functions of the blog without the index being blocked by Robot.txt and can also later be displayed on the SERP or Google search engine.

How to Resolve Index Warning Messages in Search Console

So, for a complete tutorial on how to resolve index errors in the webmaster/search console, please see the steps below.
  • Go to Blogger.com .
  • On the Blogger dashboard, click the Settings menu > Search Preferences > Crawling and Indexing .
How to Resolve Index Warning Messages in Search Console
  • Next, replace the previous Robot.txt format with the new format below.
User-agent: *
Disallow:

Sitemap: https://www.domain_anda.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.domain_anda.com/atom.xml
Sitemap: https://www.domain_anda.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
Sitemap: https://www.domain_anda.com/feeds/posts/default
Sitemap: https://www.domain_anda.com/sitemap-pages.xml
  • Replace the domain name https://www.your_domain.com with your domain name.
  • Add new lines or formats if your blog already has 1000 or 1500 posts. An example of the format is as below.
User-agent: *
Disallow:

Sitemap: https://www.domain_anda.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.domain_anda.com/atom.xml
Sitemap: https://www.domain_anda.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
Sitemap: https://www.domain_anda.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500
Sitemap: https://www.domain_anda.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1001&max-results=500
Sitemap: https://www.domain_anda.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1501&max-results=500
Sitemap: https://www.domain_anda.com/feeds/posts/default
Sitemap: https://www.domain_anda.com/sitemap-pages.xml
  • An example of what it looks like is in the image below, then click the  Save Changes button .
New Format of Index Alerts in Search Console
  • Next go to the Theme menu > Edit HTML > Add the following meta tag code under the <head> code .
<b:if cond='data:view.isArchive'>
<meta content='noindex,noarchive' name='robots'/>
</b:if>
<b:if cond='data:blog.searchQuery'>
<meta content='noindex,noarchive' name='robots'/>
</b:if>
<b:if cond='data:blog.searchLabel'>
<meta content='noindex,noarchive' name='robots'/>
</b:if>
  • For image appearance after installing the meta tag code as below.
Edit HTML To Resolve Index Warning Message in Search Console

  • Click the Save Theme  button when finished and submit the new Robot.txt to the  Robot Testing Tools link and select the blog you want to submit.
  • Next, fill in the columns on the Robot Testing Tools page with the new Robot.txt format, then click the Submit button to speed up changes to the new Robot.txt on your blog.

Closing

OK, friends, that's the end of the discussion regarding  Index Warning Messages in Search Console, which you can try to do yourself. Share this article if it is useful. See you in the next interesting article and thank you for visiting.
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