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Should I noindex my category pages?
“No, don’t noindex those pages. Category and tag pages are very important pages that you want crawled a lot. As soon as you start noindexing them, Google will crawl them less and less. So, don’t noindex follow them, instead improve them.
What happens when you noindex a page?
When you add a noindex tag to a page, it lets search engines know that although it can still crawl the page, it can’t add the page to its index. Any page with the noindex directive won’t go into a search engine’s index, meaning that it won’t show up in any search engine results’ pages.
How to block search engine indexing with noindex?
To prevent most search engine web crawlers from indexing a page on your site, place the following meta tag into the section of your page: You should be aware that some search engine web crawlers might interpret the noindex directive differently.
Is there a way to noindex category pages?
Noindex via a page level meta robots tag. Noindex via a HTTP response x-robots tag. A less technical approach can also be to de-optimize your category pages by: Removing unique content. Reducing blog excerpt/snippet length. Blocking them in the robots.txt file.
Why are pages excluded from the search in Yandex?
In addition to checking the tags on the page, the algorithm checks if the page content is unique, informative, in-demand and up-to-date, as well as many other factors. However, you should pay attention to meta tags. For example, the Description meta tag and the title element can be created automatically and duplicate each other.
What happens if you put a noindex on a Google page?
Google confirmed in January 2018 that if they see a persistent noindex, they will begin to treat the page as a soft 404. This likely won’t cause any “real-world” implications, but for anyone who checks Google Search Console religiously, you will probably see some more errors in the Console that both don’t matter, and can’t be removed.