No-index all the posts of a category

[salvyy]

Hi everyone!

I would like no-indexing all the posts of a specific category of my wordpress site.

The problem is that the structure of my URL is composed without /category/: www.site-name.ext/date/post-name/
so without /category-name/

Is possibile to disallow the indexing of all the posts of the category via robots.txt?

Using Yoast Plugin I can put the no-index for each post, but I would like to put the no-index (or disallow/) a time for all the post of the category.

Thanks in advance for your help and sorry for my english.

• Mike

[OlegKorneitchouk]

Wordpress Admin > Posts > Categories > Edit the category you want to noindex > Set "always noindex" for "Noindex this category" box

EDIT: looks like that just noindexes the actual category page.

Here is a workaround I found...

1. Find the category ID (WP Admin > Posts > Categories > Edit the category you want to noindex > look at URL for the tag_ID # (this is the category ID))

2. Edit your theme header and include:

<?php if (is_single() && in_category(array(###)))  { 
echo '';
} ?>

where ### is the category ID

[salvyy]

Hi Oleg, thanks for your help.

I did just some tests and does it seems to work fine.

Do you think is possible to block Google bot to indexing all the post of a category?in this way (disallow/ in the robots.txt) I could save the Google crawle budget for the pages of my site that I want to index.

Thanks a lot for your help Oleg.

Have a nice weekend,- Mike

[OlegKorneitchouk]

With that code, Google won't index any pages within that particular category.

Unfortunately, without a specific folder pattern, you cannot block via robots.txt

[salvyy]

Sure, without /category/ in the URL structure I can't block Googlebot using the robots.txt

No problem, now I can use the noindex for all the posts.

Thank you so much Oleg.

Regards,

• MIke