Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention.
If you think your site users will find it easier to browse through category archives, then you should index and optimize them where users will likely use them to search.
Here’s our guide on how you can optimize your category pages using Rank Math:
https://rankmath.com/kb/optimize-a-category-page/
Hope that helps.
Thank you.
Ok, so I will undo the noindex option. But what about duplicate content. I read that category archives produce duplicate content. How can I stop this?
Greetings Kathrin
Hello,
Thank you for your patience.
Duplicate content issues can happen on your archive pages if they only contain thumbnails of your posts.
You should index category pages when you have unique content on those pages like descriptions.
However, if some of them have unique content and some of them don’t, then give them index and noindex accordingly.
Looking forward to helping you.
Hello,
Glad that helped.
Please feel free to reach out to us again in case you need any other assistance.
We are here to help.
Thank you.
