Need to access robots.txt to block tags
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Hi
My website nykb.com is showing up in moz as having multiple duplicate pages because of the tags (each tag generates its own page and since posts have many tags but the same tags are only used once/twice the tag pages are all duplicate pages. I wanted to block the tagpages in robots.txt but cant seem to find access to it- have searched online but havent come up with anything!
I do not have access to the ftp folders only the wordpress backend..
should I just remove tags? the posts are grouped by category too..
THANKS
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Thanks!
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Sajio is right on this one. The best thing to do with tags in general is noindex them. Then they won't show up in search results, and the duplicate titles won't even matter
To noindex tags with Yoast, go to "SEO->Tiles & Meta->Taxonomies" and check off the box "noindex" under Tags.
But, as Prestashop said, if you do ever need to edit the robots.txt in the future, Yoast allows you to do this without FTP access. You go to 'edit files'.
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its probably better to use meta robots tag to noindex,follow the tag pages if they are already indexed.
These might be worth reading
since you are using WordPress, the plugin Lesley mentioned https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/ should help.
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If you can install plugins, you should install Yoast's SEO plugin, from there you can edit both files without ftp access. https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/#files
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