Taxonomy Exclusions for Woocommerce

Hello and Happy New Year!

Yes, if you believe those taxonomies are not helpful for search-engine visitors to land on, you can safely apply “noindex” to those. I recommend leaving Product Categories indexable, so search engines will at least crawl the categories to spot new products naturally (that means without the help of a sitemap).

Please mind that “exclusions” are not the same as “noindex”. If you “exclude” a taxonomy at the SEO Settings, it will not receive any SEO from TSF at all — it also means you won’t be able to apply “noindex” to those. So, I recommend ticking the box at the Robots Meta settings, not at Exclusions. “Exclusions” are meant to fix misconfigured post types and taxonomies, which doesn’t seem to apply in your case.

Happy New Year to you Sybre ?? Thanks so so much for your reply and useful informations.

So, I just noindexed all these taxonomies from where you told me to do it:

https://jumpshare.com/v/cfRe1quDrmL82Ri5T5M5

Now, in a few days, i think that the numbers of pages on Google with the help of the operator “site:” will then decrease right?

Now, if I can, i would like to ask you 2 more small small things:

1) you think it’s safe also to apply on them a “nofollow” from the same setting panel? I mean here: https://jumpshare.com/v/QluJTgSMyezRY7GmnYNs

2) i have also applied a noindex to Media, do you think it’s ok or? Here: https://jumpshare.com/v/JSAY24FP01ifeblur6ZQ

Cheers!

Hi again!

Now, in a few days, i think that the numbers of pages on Google with the help of the operator “site:” will then decrease right?

Yes.

1) I do not recommend using “nofollow” — I assume you wish to have most links on those taxonomies indexable? If you apply “nofollow”, search engines won’t bother crawling further for new content that could be indexed. However, when you apply “noindex”, search engines will stop crawling those pages after a while, so it’s like “nofollow” is enabled, anyway. Either way, it’s still not beneficial.

2) The tiny green border around the checkbox means it’s checked by default. So, yes, I recommend leaving that checked: “noindex” for Media is good.

The tiny red border means you shouldn’t check the box unless you’re absolutely certain that’ll help you (it won’t, so don’t check those).

thank you thank you thank you! Love your plugin and your amazing support!