Hello,
We apologize for the issue you are facing with the /tag/ URLs being generated or crawled on your website. The presence of these URLs is typically related to how WordPress handles tags and taxonomies. By default, WordPress creates tag archives for any tags you assign to your posts, which can lead to the generation of /tag/ URLs.
To manage this behavior in Rank Math, you can follow these steps:
- Check Tag Settings: Go to Rank Math SEO → Titles & Meta → Taxonomies and review the settings for Tags. You can choose to noindex these pages if you do not want them to be crawled by search engines.
- Disable Tag Archives: If you do not use tags at all, you might consider disabling tag archives altogether. This can be done by adding a filter in your theme’s
functions.php file:
add_action('init', function() {
if (is_tag()) {
wp_redirect(home_url(), 301);
exit;
}
});
- Review Your Content: Ensure that you are not unintentionally assigning tags to your posts that could lead to the creation of these URLs.
If you continue to experience issues or if the URLs are still being generated despite these changes, please reply to this ticket, and a human agent from the Rank Math Support team will assist you further.
Thank you for raising this concern!
Sources:
Rank Math Sitemap Issues and Their Fixes » Rank Math
Hello,
Please note that Rank Math doesn’t generate any tag URLs on your website. If these tags are present on your site then search engine bots can easily find and crawl them.
In case, you want to block the bots from crawling these URLs then you can add a disallow rule on your robots.txt file.
Here’s a guide on how to edit your robots.txt using Rank Math:
https://rankmath.com/kb/how-to-edit-robots-txt-with-rank-math/
Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
Thank you.
Hi, and thank you.
Disable Feeds: You can disable feeds in Rank Math by going to Rank Math SEO → General Settings → Miscellaneous and turning off the feed options.
I do not have “Miscellaneous”. See attached. Any ideas?
Check Tag Settings: Go to Rank Math SEO → Titles & Meta → Taxonomies and review the settings for Tags. You can choose to noindex these pages if you do not want them to be crawled by search engines.
I don’t actaully have a TAXONOMIES tab. Attached is a screenshot of what I see.
Images: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/20bixy0alqbx87xb72nby/AD41_hatAPpeTE1y-WpoxMs?rlkey=1h6rv3ixt3kr3t1tpd31iny56&dl=0
Thank you.
T
Hello,
Please ignore Rankbot’s reply. You will have to edit your site’s robots.txt file and add the following rule to prevent crawlers from crawling the feed URLs:
Disallow: */feed/
You are using the Easy Mode of our plugin. Please follow this guide to switch to the advanced mode and access the Taxonomies section in the Titles & Meta settings: https://rankmath.com/kb/advanced-mode/
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Cool.. I’ll add that to my robot.txt file….
As for switching to Advanced mode, I’m definitely in Advanced mode and still not seeing the Taxomonomies tab.
Thx!
T
Hello,
We might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.
Please do take a complete backup of your website before sharing the information with us.
It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/
You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/
We really look forward to helping you.
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.
