A Bug in Yoast Plugin Added Incorrect Robots Meta Tags Values to Your Content, Fixed in v 14.0.4
https://twitter.comLooks like the Yoast plugin had a bug which added incorrect values for noindex
, nofollow
, noarchive
, noimageindex
and/or nosnippet
. They have released a patch in v 14.0.4 and it looks like they will need to reindex the content to make sure they get the right values. If you have a site with a lot of pages you can use the WP CLI command to do the indexation on the server.
Best to update quickly before Google picks up the changes and drops those pages.