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: [image] As well as removing the tag in title names: [image]

If you want to prohibit something additionally, then you need to add rules (not clean up). Add: Disallow: /c/ Learn more about “Disallow” Using robots.txt | 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.

Maybe this can help you: [image] Needing to edit robots.txt file - where is it? Support 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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Hiding 'Categories' seo/meta link?

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Stranik (Evgeny) September 28, 2019, 4:15am 2

Maybe this can help you:

Where you yourself can set the rules for categories.

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