# How to noindex topics within a specific category?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-noindex-topics-within-a-specific-category/392395
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 30, 2025, 1:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-noindex-topics-within-a-specific-category/392395 "2025-12-30T13:43:27Z")
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### Author: ![renato](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/renato/32/383632_2.png) [@renato](https://meta.discourse.org/u/renato)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-noindex-topics-within-a-specific-category/392395/10 "2025-12-31T15:13:46Z")

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> [@Brandon007](#):
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> but it’s a different use case

What do you mean?

> [@Brandon007](#):
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> How can we set noindex for all topics in a specific category?

> [@Need a way to add "meta robots noindex" in topics from a category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-a-way-to-add-meta-robots-noindex-in-topics-from-a-category/151347/1):
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> a simple checkbox in the category configuration box:
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> `[] Hide Topics from this category in search results`.
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> When the checkbox is marked, a **noindex** tag would be inserted in the header of all the pages related to it: the category itself, topics, pagination, etc.
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> > \<meta name=“robots” content=“noindex, dofollow”\>
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> This way, everything is still there to the users, but ignored by search engines.

Wouldn’t that solve it for you?

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