noindex Detected in robots meta False Positive GSC Fix
Search Console reporting 'noindex detected in robots meta' on pages that are clearly indexable? Here is the App Router metadata bug behind it and the fix.
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5 write-ups from production, newest first. Each one is a problem hit on a real project and how it was diagnosed and fixed.
Search Console reporting 'noindex detected in robots meta' on pages that are clearly indexable? Here is the App Router metadata bug behind it and the fix.
Search Console is reporting hundreds of 'Indexed, not submitted in sitemap' URLs on a Next.js site? Here is what is leaking and the sitemap fix that holds.
Page with redirect in Search Console keeping your Next.js pages out of the index? Here is why your canonical URL redirects and how to fix it for good.
Search Console flagging 'Duplicate without user-selected canonical' on Next.js pages? Set explicit canonicals in generateMetadata and recover indexing fast.
Google Search Console flagging Next.js dynamic routes as soft 404 in 2026? Fix 200 status fallbacks, missing notFound() throws, and thin streaming renders.