Fli
09-26-2015, 12:53 PM
Hello,
some people on the internet saying it is good idea to tell Google not to index:
- Wordpress posts Archive
- Tags
- Categories
because of:
a) duplicate content (posts text is visible both on category pages & archive pages versus posts itself)
b) too many links/low value content (tag pages)
but there are two options:
- tell google not to follow links
- tell google not to index pages
How to Nofollow or NoIndex in Wordpress
Nofollow: example by adding nofollow attribute to the category links in the widget. But how? its another question..
NoIndex: example by updating robots.txt file:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /tag/
Disallow: /category/
Nofollow/Noindex: A) in HTML header section of the page source code, one can add:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />
it will allow following links on that page, but will not index that page
B) The plugin that is automatic nofollow and noindex on Wordpress is example: Yoast WP SEO
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This tool (http://www.checkingtools.com/meta_tags_check) can tell 403 (forbidden) error if you add an page within categories or tags you disallowed (noindex) to bots using robots.txt file (an example above)
some people on the internet saying it is good idea to tell Google not to index:
- Wordpress posts Archive
- Tags
- Categories
because of:
a) duplicate content (posts text is visible both on category pages & archive pages versus posts itself)
b) too many links/low value content (tag pages)
but there are two options:
- tell google not to follow links
- tell google not to index pages
How to Nofollow or NoIndex in Wordpress
Nofollow: example by adding nofollow attribute to the category links in the widget. But how? its another question..
NoIndex: example by updating robots.txt file:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /tag/
Disallow: /category/
Nofollow/Noindex: A) in HTML header section of the page source code, one can add:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />
it will allow following links on that page, but will not index that page
B) The plugin that is automatic nofollow and noindex on Wordpress is example: Yoast WP SEO
-----------
This tool (http://www.checkingtools.com/meta_tags_check) can tell 403 (forbidden) error if you add an page within categories or tags you disallowed (noindex) to bots using robots.txt file (an example above)