Simple SEO Noindex Toggle
Simple SEO Noindex Toggle gives you precise, per-content control over which posts and pages are indexed by search engines — without the overhead of a full SEO plugin suite.
In one click, you can exclude any post or page from search engine indexes using the standard <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"> tag. Every feature is built around a clean admin UI, WordPress coding standards, and zero unnecessary dependencies.
How to Verify the Plugin Is Working
There are three ways to confirm the noindex tag is active on the frontend:
Method 1 — Built-in Tag Verifier (recommended)
- Enable the Noindex toggle on a published post and save.
- In the editor, click Verify Tag in Source in the SEO Settings meta box.
- A green ✓ Confirmed result appears, showing the exact tag found in the live page source.
Method 2 — View Page Source
- Visit the published post on the frontend.
- Right-click → View Page Source (or press
Ctrl+U/Cmd+U). - Press
Ctrl+Fand search fornoindex. - The tag
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />appears near the top of<head>.
Method 3 — Google Search Console
- Open URL Inspection in Google Search Console.
- Paste the post URL and click Test Live URL.
- Under Page Indexing, Google reports: “Page is not indexed — noindex tag detected”.
- Under HTTP response → Detected meta tags, the robots tag is listed explicitly.
Method 4 — site: Search Operator
After Google recrawls the page (typically 24–72 hours), searching site:yourdomain.com/post-slug on Google returns no results, confirming the page has been de-indexed.