Can you no index a page in Wordpress from just Google news?
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I'm trying to find a plugin for Wordpress that enables you to no-index an individual page from Google news but not from Google search results. We want to remove some of our pages from Google news without hurting others.
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Aaah - that's what I was afraid of!
Thanks anyway!
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I think you will as I'm unaware of any plugin in Wordpress that would give you this level of granular functionality. It might have to be something custom coded. Good luck!
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Thank you for taking the time to respond Ryan!
I was hoping however to not have to resort to using robots.txt file - I'm trying to find a way for our content writers to select which bot it should be indexed by within Wordpress as they publish the post. Any thoughts on that?!
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Hello! You'll want to block Googlebot-News via your robots.txt file from the items you do not wish to be in the Google News index. Here's there help article on it: https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/93977
Google Search and Google News support two different 'bots', namely Googlebot and Googlebot-News, that you can use as meta tags or in your robots entry to control where your content appears.
In other words:
- If you block access to Googlebot-News, your content won't appear in Google News.
- If you block access to Googlebot, your content won't appear in Google News or Web Search.
Note that Google respects the more restrictive interpretation of your bots choice.
Cheers!
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