Multiple tags url disabling

  • vanderwaals

    (@vanderwaals)


    10 years, 2 months ago

    Hello, dear friends.
    Several years ago WordPress Multiple Tags Function was introduced. However, it seems to me not really useful, if you take my meaning. Thousands of pages like these are generated:
    ***********.com/tag/tag1+tag2+tag3+tag4+tag5+tag6/
    ***********.com/tag/tag2+tag3+tag4+tag5+tag6/
    ***********.com/tag/tag3+tag4+tag5+tag6/
    Google and other searching machines exclude these urls. Nevertheless, they index them. Could you tell me, please, is it possible to disable this tag ‘totalization’? It seems to me more convenient to have tag urls like they are:
    ***********.com/tag/tag1/
    ***********.com/tag/tag2/
    ***********.com/tag/tag3/
    and so on, but without its multiply generation.
    Thank you in advance.

    P.S. Is it possible to prevent its indexing with robots.txt file or use a htaccess redirect?

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  • Davood Denavi

    (@binarywc)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    Why not just set up a sitemap? My experience with sitemaps is google will only index the pages as mentioned in the sitemap.

    You can definitely use mod-rewrite code in htaccess and/or do a 301 redirect from the urls with tags to a specific location as you see fit.

    Hope this helps.

    Thread Starter vanderwaals

    (@vanderwaals)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    Davood Dehnavi, thank you for your reply. Sitemap plugin is installed. Tag links are really fine and beautiful there.
    However, there is a small issue: google indexes Multiple tags anyway. Just because WordPress generates Multiple tags URL itself. That’s why I’m looking for the way to turn off this generating mechanism.
    Moreover, I’ve checked many common tutorials for htaccess settings, and unfortunately I could not find any way to redirect urls with ”+” (plus) symbol.

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