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Home page and categories pages have different meta name ="robots" tags.

I found out my website has 

<meta name="robots" content="INDEX,FOLLOW"/>

tag showing for the pages that has 1 column layout 'page-layout-1column' like home page and product pages.

But category pages shows meta tags as 

<meta name="robots" content="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW"/>

and the layout for category page 2 columns left "page-layout-2columns-left". I need to add INDEX, FOLLOW for category pages also. I found out it may be due to the different page layouts. But I could not locate what I need to change.

I have checked inside content->design->configuration and found out in Search Engine Robots section INDEX, FOLLOW is selected. enter image description here

I need to add INDEX, FOLLOW for category pages. Please guide me What changes I need to do to achieve this?

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I am sure that for might be an extension, NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW is showing at Category page.

If You want to changes robots meta value then on layout_generate_blocks_before event fire an observer and change meta robot value using Magento\Framework\View\Page\Config class.

Here the observer class:

<?php namespace StackExchange\MagentoTest\Observer; use Magento\Framework\Event\Observer; use Magento\Framework\Event\ObserverInterface; use Magento\Framework\View\Page\Config as PageConfig; class CategoryPageRobot implements ObserverInterface { private $pageConfig; public function __construct( PageConfig $pageConfig ){ $this->pageConfig = $pageConfig; } public function execute(Observer $observer) { $fullActionName = $observer->getEvent()->getData('full_action_name'); if($fullActionName === 'catalog_category_view'){ $this->pageConfig->setMetadata('robots','INDEX,FOLLOW'); } } }

Location: app/code/StackExchange/MagentoTest/Observer/CategoryPageRobot.php

events.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?> <config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:Event/etc/events.xsd"> <event name="layout_generate_blocks_before"> <observer name="category_page_meta_robots_value" instance="StackExchange\MagentoTest\Observer\CategoryPageRobot" /> </event> </config>

Location: app/code/StackExchange/MagentoTest/etc/frontend/events.xml

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