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1. jdcfsu
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Looking at the referring sites log for my site, a lot of people lately are getting search results on Google, Yahoo, etc that bring them to my site but instead of bringing them to a particular post, they're being dumped on the tag archives. This, obviously, is not preferred and if I were the searcher I'd not be very happy at all. Sometimes they don't make any since either; a recent search for HVAC in North Carolina brought the visitor to my tag archive for the TV show Fringe.

   I have both the SEO and Google Site Map plugins installed, but I'm not sure which I need to tweak to fix this. I'd prefer to have people not find the tag archives at all, but I don't know if that's the best option available. Any help or suggestions you guys can provide would be awesome. Thank you.

2. iridiax
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   A sitemap plugin will not help you with this, but a seo plugin should (look in its dashboard settings).

   I don't use either of those plugins, just something like the following in the head section of my theme's header.php:

   <?php if (((is_home()) && ($paged <= "1")) or (is_single()) or (is_page())) { ?>
   <meta name="robots" content="index,follow"/>
   <?php } else { ?>
   <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"/>
   <?php } ?>

3. jdcfsu
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Nice tip. Thank you.

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