Which Joomla version?

Normally that's the expected behavior. follow,index is the default standard value for attribute robots. It's not needed to set it explicitly.

If you set another value (e.g. nofollow,index) in configuration it is shown correctly.

Tested with 3.6.5. All fine.

See http://www.robotstxt.org/meta.html

Actually, I believe this was for the weblinks component. I need to run a test on a new install to verify it's not an upgrade issue.

Just to be clear there is no setting outside of the module to set a follow/nofollow option.

I am 99.9% sure it used to be in each link and in the global options and menu items settings. This is not the same as index follow settings as a html link would not have a index. It's a link attribute and it's gone.

I don't understand. I followed testing instructions and all worked like expected. META robots: all fine.

If you think that there are other issues concerning META-Robots-Tag please provide some more detailled testing instructions.

@bertmert The original post is not correct. It's not a meta tag issue. It's a rel=nofollow issue.

Install, add a menu item of weblinks and try and set one to rel=follow. You won't be able to do this. Only a module of weblinks can be set to follow.

Once you have a menu item of weblinks check the html of the link and see it's forced as rel=nofollow which used to be an option in each link or in global settings. Now only a module has such a setting in it.

com_weblinks has been decoupled from Joomla core. Please open an issue here:
https://github.com/joomla-extensions/weblinks

is this still an Issue?

I believe it is.

A menu item called Weblinks is hard coded as rel=nofollow. A weblinks module has the setting in it for follow or nofollow.

http://aspiralmind.com/

@bertmert suggested to open a Issue at https://github.com/joomla-extensions/weblinks (com_weblinks has been decoupled from Joomla core)

As this is related only to weblinks then please can you close this here @zero-24