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Google Search Console showing “Excluded by noindex tag” but noindex already removed – pages not indexing & multiple sitemaps issue

Hi everyone,

I’m facing a confusing indexing issue with my website Tycoon Guards and would really appreciate some expert guidance.

Problem details:

  • Google Search Console shows: “Page is not indexed: Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag”
  • It also says: No: ‘noindex’ detected in ‘robots’ meta tag
  • However, I have already removed the noindex tag from:
    • Page <meta name="robots">
    • robots.txt
  • Crawl status is successful
  • Crawl allowed: Yes
  • Page fetch: Successful
  • Googlebot: Smartphone

Other issues:

  • Google Search Console is showing many sitemaps, even though I only want to use one main sitemap (/sitemap.xml)
  • My service inner pages (for example: https://tycoonguards.com/services/live-video-monitoring/) are not getting indexed
  • Referring pages include homepage and blog tag pages
  • Canonical is not user-declared (Google-selected canonical = inspected URL)

What I’ve already checked:

  • No noindex tag in page source
  • No X-Robots-Tag: noindex intentionally added
  • Robots.txt allows crawling
  • Sitemap is submitted in Search Console

My questions:

  1. Why is Google still detecting a noindex tag even after removal?
  2. Can old cache, CDN, or theme/plugin (WordPress) cause this?
  3. Why are multiple sitemaps auto-generated, and should I remove them?
  4. What is the correct way to force reindexing service pages?
  5. Could blog tag pages or sitemap conflicts be affecting indexing?

If anyone has faced a similar issue or can point me in the right direction, I’d really appreciate your help.

Thanks in advance!

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