This older thread looks relevant:
raulih wroteI have a problem that main page and other basedir level pages prevent indexing in search engines. Their HTML source code has this line:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />
I think
andi points towards some useful info in his response to that thread. Unfortunately, those links don't seem to be working any more, so I hunted around on dokuwiki.org itself to find where they might have moved to. Try these instead:
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https://www.dokuwiki.org/seo?s=delayed
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https://www.dokuwiki.org/config:indexdelay
Look forward to hearing whether are those are helpful to you.