• Resolved gwenm

    (@gwenm)


    Hello
    The meta disallow or noindex does not appear in the source code of the pages concerned.
    I would like to disallow robots for my categories, archives etc …
    So I added this kind of command to my robots.tx file. Only when I look in the source code of these pages, I don’t have any ban meta tag that appears.
    I have 3 sites and it’s the same everywhere. I did the test with another theme and adding a robots.txt with a plugin.

    Why ?
    Thank

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  • Al said khaled

    (@khaledalsaid)

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    Thread Starter gwenm

    (@gwenm)

    Thank you, could you elaborate so that I understand well and make my research in the right direction .. thank you very much

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    There is not normally any linkage between robots.txt and meta tags. Either approach is not mandatory, search engines could choose to ignore either one or both. You could decide having the directives in just robots.txt is adequate. Or just in meta tags and not robots.txt. Of course, you may do both if you prefer.

    Unless you have a plugin that claims to handle both through one settings page, each will need to be addressed independently. The meta tags could be implemented through some custom code. There are also plugins that will manage this for you.

    If you already use a plugin that is supposed to handle both and it’s not doing so, I recommend asking through the plugin’s dedicated support channel where its devs are in the best position to help you.

    Thread Starter gwenm

    (@gwenm)

    I feel stupid. I thought that putting noindex for a page, displayed the meta tag
    <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex”>

    Thank you for taking the time to answer me, you have solved my false problem ??
    Have good day, thank you very much

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    You’re welcome. Please don’t feel stupid! There’s nothing intuitive about this ??

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