Hello,
We apologize for the issue you are facing with the indexing of your website. It seems that you have a couple of concerns: categories that you want to ensure are not indexed and posts that are not appearing in Google search results.
1. Preventing Categories from Being Indexed
To prevent specific categories from being indexed, you can use the Noindex meta tag. Here’s how you can do it:
- Go to your WordPress Dashboard.
- Navigate to Rank Math SEO > Titles & Meta.
- Find the section for Categories and set the Robots Meta to Noindex.
This will ensure that those categories do not get indexed by search engines.
2. Ensuring Posts are Indexed
For the posts that are not appearing in Google, please check the following:
- Ensure that these posts do not have the Noindex attribute set. You can check this in the Rank Math meta box on each post.
- Verify that your global settings do not discourage search engines from indexing your site. Check this under WordPress Dashboard > Settings > Reading and make sure the option Discourage search engines from indexing this site is unchecked.
- Make sure your robots.txt file does not contain any rules that block Google from crawling your posts. You can edit this in Rank Math under General Settings > Edit Robots.txt.
If you have checked all these settings and still face issues, please reply to this ticket with your site URL so that a human agent can assist you further. Thank you for raising this concern!
Sources:
Why Google Hasn’t Indexed Your Post, Page, and/or Website? » Rank Math
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Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.