How to noindex categories and archives

  • I tried using the disallow command in the robot.txt file but it’s still showing up in search after a few months. And states “A description for this result is not available because of this site’s robots.txt – learn more/“

    That pretty much means I need to put the meta tag noindex nofollow in the header.

    My question would be – could I just paste the meta tag in the header section of the page template of my archives and category pages. I’m careful because I don’t want the noindex nofollow meta tag to affect my entire website for obvious reasons.

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  • Use WordPress SEO by Yoast .It will help you to do no-index categories and archives.

    You can also use the code(given below ) to no-index,nofollw categories and archives.

    Put the code into header.php

    <?php
if ((is_archive()) && (!(is_category()))) {
echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />';
}
elseif ((is_paged()) && (!(is_category()))) {
echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />';
}
elseif ((is_single()) || (is_page()) || (is_front_page()) || (is_category())) {
echo '<meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />';
}
else {
echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />';
}
?>

    Thread Starter clouder

    (@clouder)

    Oh yea.

    Do I need to use echo and is “else” necessary?

    Wouldn’t simply using –

    <?php

if (is_archive()) {
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />;
}

elseif (is_category()) {
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />;
}
?>

    suffice?

    Also I don’t have a strong grasp on php so I’m wondering if a simpler solution of just pasting this code into the header of the category.php and archive.php would work just as well?

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