Noindex, Follow or not?

[retired_member33]

I have a wordpress website which is very much Category driven so the sitemap would look like this:

www.bluewidget.com/widgetstore

Where Widgetstore is the product/shop I want to rank and is a category but included in the sitemap so it looks like a page.

I will be adding posts in this category which all show up on the /widgetstore page but also are pages on their own so:

www.bluewidget.com/bluewidget-with-yellow-casing

I will be focussing my seo efforts on www.bluewidget.com/widgetstore so I only want the underlying posts to be seen as content added to the /widgetstore page.

What do I do to make sure Google only indexes the /widgetstore page and does not index the posts added to the category but does crawl the content on them and sees it as content added to the /widgetstore page?

Should I just index them and give them a lower priority in the sitemap?

It might be a bit confusing but its the best way I can explain it

 

[retired_member21]

I don't quite get why you don't optimise both pages - is the product page duplicated content?

 

[Blossom]

Seconding Nick's comment. It's better to have unique content indexed if you can.

Can't you go down the route of www.bluewidget.com/widgetstore/bluewidget-with-yellow-casing

You can't give pages a lower priority in the sitemap. Google will make its own decisions.

Just so we're clear, you know that you can submit one sitemap to Google and show another on your site for your visitors right?

You can make Google focus on /widgetstore purely with content and link building. If you don't do anything on the other pages then (unless you happen to attract lots of natural links) you'll be fine. Redirecting /widgetstore to the index page if appropriate may also help.

 

[retired_member21]

Agree with Blossom

Focus on link building to your main page and by adding newer content into the hierachy related to the main 'widget' keyphrase you are improving the site's overall rankings for the phrase(s) related to 'widget'

The XML priority is for crawler access on busy server loads not meant to affect rankings, I'd think of link building as your priority mechanism

 

[AssetDomains]

If im reading you right you want to stop your catorgories being indexed think allinoneseopack plugin can do what you want

 

[Sanjana]

I saw the website allinseopack of wordpress its really cool first time I know from this post any type of plugins comes.

 

[retired_member33]

Have sorted it now, all is being indexed

Going on about this topic, does anyone know how to add extra words to the header/title of a category page?

Currently it shows the category name as the title of the page and I want wordpress to automatically add a certain word to it.

I am not talking about the title or meta description of the page but the header shown on the page itself.

I know, a bit vague again but if someone feels like helping, I will be glad to send you an example.

Thanks

 

[AssetDomains]

Have sorted it now, all is being indexed

Going on about this topic, does anyone know how to add extra words to the header/title of a category page?

Thanks

There are a few ways you could Rename all the categorys or if you wanted the same word added to every catorgory easy enough to mod the template file post an example if you could

 

[retired_member33]

Here is an example, its a theme I have been playing around with.

As you can see the header now says Hotels.com and I want to have add a word after that, basically the same word for every category page

 

[AssetDomains]

I see your using a pro theme does it come with a Category.php template some dont. if so can you post the source code.

 

[retired_member33]

There unfortunally is no file called category.php

Would there be a way to find out in which .php file it could be instead?

Thanks

 

[AssetDomains]

Probably index.php or archive.php lots of pro themes heavly mod things without seeing the theme files its hard to say.

 

[retired_member33]

There also is no archive.php.

I could post the index.php file?

 

[AssetDomains]

Its most likely controled by something in the themes functions files is anything labled category in the themes functions files

 

[retired_member33]

No there is not but there is a part in the .index file which looking at the page source it might be:

<div class="bar2">

<h2><?php if($GLOBALS['premiumpress']['catName'] !=""){ echo $GLOBALS['premiumpress']['catName']; } if(isset($_GET['s'])){ print strip_tags($_GET['s']); } ?></h2>

</div>

<div id="item_wrapper">

<div id="StoreText">

<?php echo $PPT->CategoryExtras($GLOBALS['premiumpress']['catID'],"image"); ?>

<?php echo $PPT->CategoryExtras($GLOBALS['premiumpress']['catID'],"text"); ?>

</div>

 

[AssetDomains]

Looks like you did find the right bit of code

/* NOT THE HOME PAGE SO DO WHATS BELOW --> */
 }else{ 
 
 
 ?>
 
    <div class="bar2">
 
     <h2><?php if($GLOBALS['premiumpress']['catName'] !=""){ echo $GLOBALS['premiumpress']['catName']; } if(isset($_GET['s'])){ print strip_tags($_GET['s']); } ?> [COLOR=red]TYPE YOUR TEXT YOU WANT TO ADD HERE[/COLOR]</h2>
 
    </div>

This will place the word after every category though will that be a problem there are may be another slightly more complex solution

 

[retired_member33]

Thanks mate!

Got it sorted now, thanks for your help