Sitemap – Exclusion of Posts/Pages/Tags

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  • Resolved Anonymous

    2 years, 7 months ago

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    Hi

    Some of my posts/pages/tags are not properly indexed by Google.
    I have stopped the indexing of tags, as recommended in the RankMath tutorial, however Google still crawls them and does not want to index them.
    So, after reviewing the RankMath Tutorial, I have decided that I will exclude all posts/tags that I do not want visible on Google, so the sitemap does not give them anymore to google for review.

    If I have the following link, as per RankMath tutorial:
    yourwebsite.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1&action=edit

    “Post=1” or just the number “1” should go in the field for post exclusion?
    Same with tags:
    yourwebsite.com/wp-admin/post.php?tag_ID=14343&action=edit

    Do I need to insert the whole part “tag_ID=14343” or just the number “14343” in order to get these tags excluded successfully?

    Sorry for asking over here, but its very clear for me in the tutorial.
    Many thanks
    Kind regards

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  • Anonymous

    2 years, 7 months ago

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    Also, If I delete all my tags from the website, as there is no really a value for any of my website visitors as I have made them invisible, are they going to be automatically removed from the sitemap, or I still need to submit every tag ID one by one?

    Sandeepan Kumar

    2 years, 7 months ago

    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting the support and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

    You just need to enter the ID i.e. number to be excluded from the sitemap. As far as deleting the tags are concerned, I wouldn’t recommend that because it will create 404 error for those pages. Instead of deleting, I would suggest making all tags as “noindex” by navigating to Rank Math > Titles & Meta and in Tags make it “noindex”

    Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

    Thank you

    Anonymous

    2 years, 7 months ago

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    So the tag id is “tag_ID=111” and in this case I need to input only the actual number “111”, rather than the whole “tag_Id=111”?

    Yes, I will keep the tags for now.

    Hopefully it will sort of my google search console after excluding them from the sitemap.

    Kind regards

    Sandeepan Kumar

    2 years, 7 months ago

    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    Yes, that’s correct you just need to enter the number.

    Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

    Thank you

    Anonymous

    2 years, 7 months ago

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    Thank you very much for your kind input and help provided.
    I consider my query as resolved.
    Many thanks and kind regards

    Princess

    2 years, 6 months ago

    Hello,

    We are super happy that this resolved your issue. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.

    If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.

    If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.

    Thank you.

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