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No-index all the posts of a category
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Hi everyone!
I would like no-indexing all the posts of a specific category of my wordpress site.
The problem is that the structure of my URL is composed without /category/: www.site-name.ext/date/post-name/
so without /category-name/Is possibile to disallow the indexing of all the posts of the category via robots.txt?
Using Yoast Plugin I can put the no-index for each post, but I would like to put the no-index (or disallow/) a time for all the post of the category.
Thanks in advance for your help and sorry for my english.
- Mike
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Sure, without /category/ in the URL structure I can't block Googlebot using the robots.txt
No problem, now I can use the noindex for all the posts.
Thank you so much Oleg.
Regards,
- MIke
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With that code, Google won't index any pages within that particular category.
Unfortunately, without a specific folder pattern, you cannot block via robots.txt
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Hi Oleg, thanks for your help.
I did just some tests and does it seems to work fine.
Do you think is possible to block Google bot to indexing all the post of a category?in this way (disallow/ in the robots.txt) I could save the Google crawle budget for the pages of my site that I want to index.
Thanks a lot for your help Oleg.
Have a nice weekend,- Mike
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Wordpress Admin > Posts > Categories > Edit the category you want to noindex > Set "always noindex" for "Noindex this category" box
EDIT: looks like that just noindexes the actual category page.
Here is a workaround I found...
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Find the category ID (WP Admin > Posts > Categories > Edit the category you want to noindex > look at URL for the tag_ID # (this is the category ID))
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Edit your theme header and include:
<?php if (is_single() && in_category(array(###))) { echo ''; } ?>
where ### is the category ID
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