Reply To: Preventing category pages and FAQ Pages from being crawled by Google

[EnShaar]

Don’t block them, just noindex.

If you block via robots.txt, Google can still index the URLs without actually crawling them, which gets messy.

Easiest way is just:

noindex, follow on tag/category/faq pages

Also if those FAQ pages are basically the same content, I wouldnt even create separate URLs for them. Just keep everything on the main page + use FAQ schema

Cleaner and less headache overall.