Wordpress website links

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by pentaxial, Jun 21, 2019.

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    Wordpress generates own links for posts and pages as well default.
    We don’t need to generate links for categories as i never used categories links on website
    Can we stop generating links on wordpress admin default?
    if not, any plugin will do this? Or we have to use robot.txt to stop crawling by bots.
    coz Google craws all categories links and showing as site links on serps (I don’t want bots to crawl my categories link)
     
    pentaxial, Jun 21, 2019 IP
  2. dcristo

    dcristo Illustrious Member

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    If you use the All in One SEO Plugin you can disable the indexing of category and archive pages. Make sure the checkbox for "Use noindex for Categories" is ticked.
     
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    Sumit_Singh Well-Known Member

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    Which SEO plugin are you using for your website? If you are adding new category page then the URL will be generated itself and you don't want to index those pages then disable the indexing for category pages or use the robots.txt file.
     
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    i am using yoast seo plugin, is there an option to stop indexing those post and category links in that plugin.
     
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    Sumit_Singh Well-Known Member

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    Thank you Sumit singh, i have done the work as per the given guidelines. after that i indexed the website once again, will it take one day for the changes to apply.
     
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    You are welcome, there is no fixed time, sometimes it will take more than a week.
     
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    Once again thank you Sumit Singh.
     
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    Thank you dcristo
     
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