Don't want Archives Page to be Picked Up

  • Resolved rachel

    (@alamodest)


    10 years, 1 month ago

    I’ve been noticing through my stats that a lot of people through search engines end up on my archives page instead of a particular post containing the text or photo they were looking for. This is irritating I’m sure because they would have to scroll to find the information through several posts within that month/tag.

    Another related problem I see on my WordPress is that my related posts also pull up some archive pages instead of a particular post. The archives are obvious because the title for each of them contain my blog name (not the post name). See example here on the very bottom of the post: https://alamodest.com/beautiful-nude-shoes/

    I don’t want search engines nor my WordPress related posts to pick up a whole archive list or tag list of posts. I would like just the posts and the pages individually to be picked up.

    I would appreciate your help! Thank you!
    Rachel

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  • I use the plugin WordPress SEO by Yoast for this and can recommend it a lot. It is pretty much the standard SEO plugin, free, and actively developed.

    After installing you can go to SEO -> Title & Metas and define for each individual taxonomy (archives, keyword pages, category pages, author pages, …) how it should be indexed by search engines. Check the box [x] noindex and they will not be indexed.

    Regards,
    Bella

    Thread Starter rachel

    (@alamodest)

    Awesome. Thank you so much! I do have WordPress SEO, and I am looking at the settings right now. There is categories, tags, and format. Is format the archived posts?

    No, there should be a tab “Others” under which you find: Author Archive, Date Archive (or similar – I’m using a different language).

    Thread Starter rachel

    (@alamodest)

    I saw it! Thank you so much!

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