noindex SEO

Description

This plugin can be downloaded for free, without any paid subscription, from the official WordPress.org repository.

Allows to add a meta-tag for robots noindex in some parts of your WordPress site.

Main pages

• Front Page: Block the indexing of the site’s front page.
• Home: Block the indexing of the site’s home page.

Pages and Posts

• Page: Block the indexing of the site’s pages.
• Privacy Policy: Block the indexing of the site’s privacy policy page.
• Single: Block the indexing of a post on the site.
• Singular: Block the indexing of a post or a page of the site.

Taxonomies

• Category: Block the indexing of the site categories. The lists where the posts appear.
• Tag: Block the indexing of the site’s tags. The lists where the posts appear.

Dates

• Date: Block the indexing when any date-based archive page (i.e. a monthly, yearly, daily or time-based archive) of the site. The lists where the posts appear.
• Day: Block the indexing when a daily archive of the site. The lists where the posts appear.
• Month: Block the indexing when a monthly archive of the site. The lists where the posts appear.
• Time: Block the indexing when an hourly, “minutely”, or “secondly” archive of the site. The lists where the posts appear.
• Year: Block the indexing when a yearly archive of the site. The lists where the posts appear.

Archives

• Archive: Block the indexing of any type of Archive page. Category, Tag, Author and Date based pages are all types of Archives. The lists where the posts appear.
• Author: Block the indexing of the author’s page, where the author’s publications appear.
• Post Type Archive: Block the indexing of any post type page.

Pagination

• Pagination: Block the indexing of the pagination, i.e. all pages other than the main page of an archive.

Search

• Search: Block the indexing of the internal search result pages.

Attachments

• Attachment: Block the indexing of an attachment document to a post or page. An attachment is an image or other file uploaded through the post editor’s upload utility. Attachments can be displayed on their own “page” or template. This will not cause the indexing of the image or file to be blocked.

Previews

• Customize Preview: Block the indexing when a content is being displayed in customize mode.
• Preview: Block the indexing when a single post is being displayed in draft mode.

Error Page

• Error 404: This will cause an error page to be blocked from being indexed. As it is an error page, it should not be indexed per se, but just in case.

Important note: if you have any doubt about any of the following items it is best not to activate the option as you could lose results in the search engines.