# Hiding 'Categories' seo/meta link?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/hiding-categories-seo-meta-link/129712
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 28, 2019, 3:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hiding-categories-seo-meta-link/129712 "2019-09-28T03:24:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@nexo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nexo)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2019, 3:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hiding-categories-seo-meta-link/129712/1 "2019-09-28T03:24:47Z")
Hey guys,
We don’t use categories on our forum, we’ve done everything to hide them and use tagging instead. I saw that there’s a Categories meta link on search engines and I want to know how we can remove it. Thanks :slight_smile:
As well as removing the tag in title names:
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### Author:  [@Stranik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stranik)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2019, 4:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hiding-categories-seo-meta-link/129712/2 "2019-09-28T04:15:38Z")
Maybe this can help you:
> [@Needing to edit robots.txt file - where is it?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/needing-to-edit-robots-txt-file-where-is-it/93879/42):
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> PR was just merged: tada If you update to latest tests-passed, you’ll be able to customize robots.txt at /admin/customize/robots. The page is not linked to from anywhere in the UI, you’ll have to copy and paste the URL manually into your browser. Note: if you override the file, any later changes to the site settings that modify robots.txt (e.g. whitelisted crawler user agents etc.) won’t apply to the file (settings will save correctly, but changes won’t reflect on robots.txt). You can rest…
Where you yourself can set the rules for categories.
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### Author:  [@nexo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nexo)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2019, 4:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hiding-categories-seo-meta-link/129712/3 "2019-09-28T04:19:30Z")
Thanks! Is this how I would do that?
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### Author:  [@Stranik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stranik)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2019, 4:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hiding-categories-seo-meta-link/129712/4 "2019-09-28T04:31:18Z")
If you want to prohibit something additionally, then you need to add rules (not clean up).
Add:
```plaintext
Disallow: /c/
```
Learn more about “Disallow”
> **[Using robots.txt |](https://yandex.com/support/webmaster/en/controlling-robot/robots-txt.html?lang=en)**
>
> Robots.txt is a text file that contains site indexing parameters for the search engine robots. In robots.txt, you can restrict the indexing of website pages by
You do not need to remove the rules, you need to add them.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2019, 4:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hiding-categories-seo-meta-link/129712/5 "2019-10-28T04:31:24Z")
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