I have a recipe food blog and use wordpress, but my recipes are usually in more than one category...?

[Kelly3330]

The recipes are in most cases in more than one category (usually two) each. Do and (and if so how) need to set each post to one canicol url? E.g  A recipe on Peas is in healthy foods (which is the default wordpress cat.) and also Vegetarian Dishes. I use YOAST for wordpress

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi there

I would noindex your category pages and also canonicalize all tags or category post variation URLs to the proper post URL. From there, I would run through this resource from Moz on WP optimization.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

[Kelly3330]

Thanks for getting back to me Patrick -  I have managed to implement however paragraphs for the category archive pages as I wanted to utilize these also for  example :

Chicken Breast Recipes

Chicken breast information and details on cooking with chicken

• chicken posts

Therefore - when optimising for "chicken breast recipes" I wanted to optimise the category archive itself.

Is this not a good idea then? As I have a fair few categories I would like to add information too?  Also I was under the impression it may help me to have the categories such like this www.domain.com/chicken-breast-recipes/chickenpost.

I have looked at the Yoast set up - would I have to go into each post/recipe and add the direct canonical url within the SEO page info at the bottom ?

Thank you for your time.

[Linda-Vassily]

If you are adding value to the category pages and making them useful places for the user to land and not just a list of links, then by all means, you should keep them indexed. And yes, in this case you still need for each page to have a canonical URL, so you will have to pick which category a recipe best fits in. (You can still have the link on two category pages, one of them just needs to be the canonical.)

[Kelly3330]

Thank you for this much appreciated information!!