Can I ditch the type/standard/page taxonomy?

  • A crawl of my site found dozens of archive pages with this form:

    https://billbennett.co.nz/type/standard/page/x

    Where X goes all the way to 324.

    This isn’t much of a problem except that after roughly page 8, they are a long, long way from the index page. Each type page only links to the next and previous one. I did a crawl and the spider bombed out after page 162…

    I wonder if this causes other problems.

    Almost every page on my site is in the standard format. So the type archive more or less echoes the main site archive. The seems wasteful and an unnecessary complication.

    Is this taxonomy essential, can I ditch it, and, if so, how do I do this?

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  • Yoast would allow you to hide taxonomy archives from search crawlers. Are you concerned about this for SEO or user experience purposes?

    Thread Starter billbennett

    (@billbennett)

    That’s a good question.

    I was more concerned that it seems (OK, it feels) like bad practice and that bad practice can mean both a poor user experience and poor SEO.

    “Bad practice” because there are 324 pages on the site which don’t seem to serve any purpose.

    But if it doesn’t annoy my readers and doesn’t hurt SEO then I may just have to live with it.

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