how do I delete a wordpress category from google results?

Question

I have a site in wordpress with some categories for example "our customers", "portfolio", "articles" but the category our customers should not appear in the results of Google if someone can help thank

Answer 1

Another option, and I think it’s simpler, is to add a file called robots.txt to the root of the site.

Inside this file put:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /nossos-clientes

This tells all robots not to index our-customers link and everything below it. You can specify a single link if you need by placing the whole url, example:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /nossos-clientes/meu-cliente

In the above case, only the "my-client" would not be indexed and the link "our-customers" yes.

Recommended for websites in Wordpress:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/

# Seus bloqueios personalizados #
Disallow: /nossos-clientes

Answer 2

You can try using the Yoast plugin and apply the code and remove only the category at hand:

1. Install the plugin: https://br.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/

2. Add the code to your functions.php:

function sitemap_exclude_taxonomy( $value, $taxonomy ) { if ( $taxonomy == 'nossos-clientes') return true; } add_filter( 'wpseo_sitemap_exclude_taxonomy', 'sitemap_exclude_taxonomy', 10, 2 );