{"id":1779,"date":"2020-07-22T08:33:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T08:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dopinger.com\/blog\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2024-07-31T12:53:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T12:53:49","slug":"how-to-noindex-a-page-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dopinger.com\/blog\/how-to-noindex-a-page-in-wordpress","title":{"rendered":"How to Noindex a Page in WordPress?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When the case is a website or blog building, there is no way you have not heard of WordPress and SEO. WordPress is the biggest platform for website creation, and SEO is just the right way to get your website and pages the traffic you need. Even if you aren’t that familiar with WordPress yet, it is not so wrong to assume you have seen a bit of it. It is easy to use, but as easy as it is, it also has too many customizations you can adjust, which can mean confusion sometimes. For example, you might have heard of “noindex” pages. And might not know what it is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no need to worry, like other WordPress features, it’s pretty much self-explanatory, and you will have your way around it once you read this article. Let’s start by figuring out what does noindex means and how to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n

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<\/span>What Does Noindex Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

So, to start easy and smooth, let’s start with what does noindex means. Search engines go through your page to see when to rank it as a result, which is called “indexing” or \u201cindex page.\u201d That means noindex is when your page does not appear in results after a search. This is also called \u201ccrawling\u201d when the search engines \u201ccrawl\u201d through your page and add it to their results. We will talk about why you would need to noindex some pages. But first, let’s talk about how you would do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>How to Noindex a Page?<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are more than just one way to noindex your posts; we have gathered all of them here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you are posting something through WordPress and running Yoast SEO plugin, under your WordPress post, you will see a Yoast SEO<\/a> meta box. This is one of the places of this plugin’s customizations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, from the Yoast SEO meta box, all you need to do is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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