How do I create a noindex author page in WordPress?

How do I create a noindex author page in WordPress?

To noindex individual author pages, follow these steps:

1. Log in to your WordPress website.
2. Click on ‘Users’.
3. Go to ‘All Users’
4. Select the right user to edit in the Users overview.
5. On the profile editing page, check ‘Do not allow search engines to show this author’s archives in search results’ in the Yoast SEO settings.

How do I find my noindex website?

So the way to check for noindex is to do both: Check for an X-Robots-Tag containing “noindex” or “none” in the HTTP responses (try curl -I https://www.example.com to see what they look like) Get the HTML and scan meta tags in for “noindex” or “none” in the content attribute.

How do I enable author page in WordPress?

How to enable or disable author archive pages

1. Log in to your WordPress website. When you’re logged in, you will be in your ‘Dashboard’.
2. Click on ‘SEO’ in the sidebar.
3. Click on ‘Search Appearance’.
4. Click on the ‘Archives’ tab.
5. Toggle the ‘Author archives’ switch to match your site setup.
6. Click ‘Save Changes’.

How to noindex categories, Author, pages and..?

Discussion in ‘ WordPress ‘ started by Vel, Jul 25, 2013 . I only want my quality pages such as articles to be indexed by google, and keep others like the Author pages, categories, page number, tags, and archive pages as noindex but dofollow so they do not show up in search or get picked up in search for any of my content.

Is there a way to noindex a post in WordPress?

If you want to know how to noindex a post in WordPress, in a super-easy way, you should read this post: How to noindex a post in WordPress: the easy way. But when should you use which value? If you are the only one writing for your blog, your author pages are probably 90% the same as your blog homepage.

Which is better noindex or blocking access?

NoIndex is better than blocking access. By blocking access you’ll make your site lose some link juices. Just remember, low pages such as tag/categories/archives/author are voting for your site/articles. If you block it, SE wouldn’t count the votes. Allow search engine to CRAWL those pages but don’t allow them to index it.

When to noindex or nofollow on your site?

If, for some reason, you’d like to keep it on your site, but out of the search results, you can noindex it. Fortunately, with Yoast SEO, this is not very difficult either; just check how to noindex an author archive. Sometimes a plugin or a web developer adds a custom post type that you don’t want to be indexed.