Hello,
Thank you for contacting us with your question on whether to noindex category/tag pages.
We recommend setting category/tag pages where they have potential to cause duplicate content issues. To set a Category page to noindex please navigate to Rank Math > Titles & Meta > Categories and toggle on “Category archives Robots Meta”, then select noindex. Screenshot:
Based on your previous tickets, setting archives to noindex would be a good solution. You can check our full article on how to set pages to noindex: https://rankmath.com/kb/how-to-noindex-urls/
Hope that helps. If you have questions, do not hesitate to ask.
Thank you.
Will putting noindex on categories and tags also remove them from Google over time?
Hello,
Yes, setting the categories and tags to noindex will help remove them from the Google search results.
You need to wait for Google to crawl those URLs.
Hope that helps.
Thank you.
Thank you. I hope I don’t have to wait another 4 months. With categories and tags, I definitely had a duplicate content problem. The text of my posts was on categories and tags and in fact, Google was seeing duplicate phrases.
Hope to get good traffic by solving the problem.
Hello,
Yes, it will depend on Google on how long it will recrawl your entire website. This may take time.
Let us know how that goes.
Looking forward to helping you on this one.
Awesome, that fixed it. Thanks!
Hello @bill-5083,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math support.
We are glad that this ticket helped you with your situation.
If you have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you.
Thank you.
