How to no index subpages and categories from SERP?

  • Resolved cheonmu

    (@cheonmu)


    5 years, 11 months ago

    Hi,

    I searched my website on Google and found out that the sub pages of page and category are indexed.
    Screenshot -> https://i.imgur.com/OxxRGTe.png

    How can I exclude these sub pages and categories from the Google search results?

    I also want to know if excluding them is more advantageous in SEO aspect.

    Thank you.

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by cheonmu.
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  • Plugin Support devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    The ability to noindex paginated archives was previously a feature in the plugin, but was removed from Yoast SEO in version 6.3. You can find more information on this here: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/how-do-i-noindex-urls/#archives and the changes in version 6.3 in this article: https://yoast.com/yoast-seo-6-3/

    However, if you are wanting to noindex the paginated pages for a category due to receiving a duplicate meta description/title issue, you can avoid having duplicate titles or meta descriptions by adding the %%page%% variable to your pages. You can do so by going to SEO>Search Appearance>Content Types in your WordPress dashboard. We also have more information on using the template variables here: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/yoast-wordpress-seo-titles-metas-template-variables/

    Thread Starter cheonmu

    (@cheonmu)

    @devnihil

    Hi, Thanks for answering.

    Do i need to put %%page%% variable to SEO title field like below?

    %%title%% – %%sitename%% %%page%%

    I tried to put %% page %% variable to SEO title field in Page, but sniffet preview did not change anything.

    Thank you.

    Plugin Support Michael Ti?a

    (@mikes41720)

    Yes, to make sure that you fix the issue of duplicate titles for your paginated archives, you’ll need to add the %%page%% variable.

    Please try to head to your SEO > Search Appearance > Content Types, and for Pages, and then go to the SEO title template, and click on the +insert snippet variable button. You can then add the page variable and it should add it. You can then save the changes.

    Plugin Support Michael Ti?a

    (@mikes41720)

    No further response. Closing.

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