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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

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

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

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a review for my new site www.interlive.it

Could you please let me know what do you think about the work that I did for my site.

I'll be very happy to receive your suggestions.

Regards,

• Mike

Thank you so much Tommy!

Hi Tommy, sorry for my english, I'll do my best to explain you why I would like to change the structure of my site.

I think that for SEO is better to have the category index and push it is better than tag. The main problem is that at the moment my site has 61.000 tag more of them with zero post in: don't you think that it means bad content for Google?

Also, don't you think that it means high bounce rate?

Thanks for your advice and have a nice day!

Hi Oleg, thanks for your answer.

So what's your final suggest?

Have a nice day.

Hi David, thanks for your answer.

I usually use the plugin Wordpress Seo By Yoast to "Strip the category base (usually /category/) from the category URL" but in this case I'm not able to use it because It makes conflict with the pages url.

Regards.

Hi all,

I would like to ask you what's the better way to eliminate the slug /category/ form the wordpress category pages. I need to delete the slug /category/ to make the url seo frendly. The problem is that my site is an old site with the page indexed by Google for a long time.

Thanks for your advice.

Hi everyone,

I need to update the structure of my site www.chedonna.it

Basicly I've two main problems:

1. I've 61.000 index tag (more with no post)2. The category of my site are noindex

I thought to fix my problem making the category index and the tag noindex, but I'm not sure if this is the best solution because I've a great number of tag idexed by Google for a long time.

Mybe it is correct just to make the category index and linking it from the post and leave the tag index.

Could you please let me know what's your opinion?

Regards.

Thank you Matt!