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Why aren’t my empty categories indexed?

Published on November 18, 2018
Revised on June 5, 2020

The noindex robots–meta value discourages search engine robots from indexing your page in the search engine.

When no posts are attached to a category, it’ll be discouraged from being indexed. WordPress can send out a 404 signal; but, this isn’t always the case. So, to improve your website’s SEO by removing thin content, empty categories automatically have the noindex robots–meta value set.

To remove this discouragement, you should assign posts to it. Alternatively, you can overwrite the indexing state via the archive’s visibility options.

Filed Under: Bing, Google, Search Engines, The SEO Framework

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