Yoast Seo / Google Search Console problems

  • Resolved andy2516

    (@andy2516)


    7 years, 10 months ago

    Hi there!
    A couple of weeks ago I’ve used the Yoast SEO plugin to “strip the category base from the category URL” as I thought that was more search engine-friendly.
    I noticed soon however that Google Search Console would classify mysite.com/category-name and mysite.com/category/category-name as duplicate title tags, so I decided to revert that again and keep the category base in the category URL.
    As mysite.com/category-name would then return a 404 error though I 301 redirected every instance of mysite.com/category-name to mysite.com/category/category-name.
    Now there’s another problem though, i.e. that Google has indexed both mysite.com/category/category-name and mysite.com/category-name and shows both in search results, which is apparently not helpful either.
    Question: How can I make Google un-index mysite.com/category-name again? I’ve got no idea how to noindex mysite.com/category-name (as it, well, doesn’t really exist anyway but was created by the plugin) and I don’t think using robots.txt would be the most Google-friendly solution …
    Any help would be very much appreciated! Cheers!
    Regards,
    Andy

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/

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  • Thread Starter andy2516

    (@andy2516)

    7 years, 10 months ago

    Ok, maybe the 301 redirect wasn’t a bright idea, so I’ve changed that again now. Now these category pages like mysite.com/category-name again return a 404 error which will hopefully get them out of Google search results again (or would 410 be better? I mean these pages do virtually not exist, just Google picked up the URLs and they shouldn’t be in search results.)
    But now how do I handle the duplicate title tag issue Google search console has? Looks like whatever I do about it Google doesn’t like it. Any help would really be much appreciated!

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