SEO issues with listings

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  • March 2, 2020 at 4:46 pm #533123

    bernieportal
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    Hi, I’m trying to improve my website’s SEO and whenever I do site audits I always have issues with my listing pages.

    Is there a way to unfollow my listing “category” and “tag” pages so they aren’t being crawled by google?

    ex: https://www.bernieportal.com/broker/category/group-benefits/

    Thanks

    March 2, 2020 at 5:28 pm #533130

    Kor
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    Post count: 16516

    Hi Sarah,

    Thanks for your post. You can try using these methods https://www.isitwp.com/nofollow-external-links-only-the_content-and-the_excerpt/ to apply “nofollow” to your links. Could you give it a try and see if it helps?

    March 18, 2020 at 8:46 pm #535665

    bernieportal
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    Post count: 108

    Will that work for all (and only) my pages that have the slug “broker”?

    “broker” is my post type.

    bernieportal.com/broker/category/
    bernieportal.com/broker/tags/
    bernieportal.com/broker/united-states/

    I don’t want that script to unfollow any of my pages except for the ones that start with bernieportal.com/broker/

    Thanks!

    March 19, 2020 at 6:33 am #535684

    Kor
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    Hi Sarah,

    Thanks for your reply. That code will affect all pages. Let me forward this to a developer for a second opinion.

    Thanks!

    March 19, 2020 at 9:02 am #535694

    Naveen Giri
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    Post count: 1559

    Please try it, 

    
add_filter('the_content', 'my_nofollow');
add_filter('the_excerpt', 'my_nofollow');
 
function my_nofollow($content) {
    global $gd_post;
    if ( !geodir_is_gd_post_type( 'broker' ) ) {
		return false;
	}
    return preg_replace_callback('/<a[^>]+/', 'my_nofollow_callback', $content);
}
 
function my_nofollow_callback($matches) {
    $link = $matches[0];
    $site_link = get_bloginfo('url');
 
    if (strpos($link, 'rel') === false) {
        $link = preg_replace("%(href=\S(?!$site_link))%i", 'rel="nofollow" $1', $link);
    } elseif (preg_match("%href=\S(?!$site_link)%i", $link)) {
        $link = preg_replace('/rel=\S(?!nofollow)\S*/i', 'rel="nofollow"', $link);
    }
    return $link;
}

    Thanks

    April 7, 2020 at 6:48 am #538836

    Naveen Giri
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    Post count: 1559

    I can see the category page is already noindex, follow. which means it is already excluded from crawling.

    I will close it.

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