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What do the categories mean on WordPress?
Categories in WordPress cover broader sections of your website, while tags help to identify all the posts you have created that have been tagged with a specific word. Think of categories like a table of contents in the front of a book. They separate the content on your website into general topics.
How do I remove a permalink category in WordPress?
Remove Category in WordPress Permalinks
- Connect to your WordPress dashboard.
- Go to Settings >> Permalinks.
- Go to Custom Structure and put ‘/%category%/%postname%/’.
- Go to Category Base and type in a dot “. “.
- Save the changes.
Should you no index 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.
How are categories used in a WordPress blog?
Category is one of the default taxonomies in WordPress. You can use categories to sort and group your blog posts into different sections. For example, a news website might have categories for their articles filed under News, Opinion, Weather, and Sports. Categories help visitors quickly know what
How to remove WordPress categories from Google index?
We can use the directory removal option to remove the complete directory from the noindex tag. Within 24-48 hours, all of your categories and tag pages will be out of Google’s index. So you need to add www.domain.com/tag/ and www.domain.com/category/ and select “Temporarily hide directory”.
How do I update my categories in WordPress?
To view or update your post categories go to Posts >> Categories. To view or update your Business Directory categories go to Businesses >> Categories. Here you can add a new category, edit an existing category, or click on the category count to view all posts in that category. The layout of your category pages is determined by your theme.
How can I check if my WordPress site is indexed in Google?
First, you can check what pages of your site is indexed in Google by typing this search operator into Google: Make sure you use the noindex option for tags and categories pages in WordPress SEO by Yoast or the Meta Robots plugin.