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Preventing category pages and FAQ Pages from being crawled by Google
Posted by on April 12, 2026 at 8:07 amHI, may I know how to prevent a group of duplicated pages from being crawled by Google?
I'm using WordPress – Avada theme, when I create a blog (url[dot]com/newarticle) it also create a (url[dot]com/category/newarticle) and (url[dot]com/tags/newarticle) pages.
And if I put an FAQ to my blog article, I need to create a separate page, and call that page into my blog article to be visible. That means aside from my original page (url[dot]com/newarticle), there is (url[dot]com/faq/newarticle).
So by just making 1 page blog article, there are 3 separate pages created.
I was thinking of preventing those pages under Tags, Categories and FAQs to be hidden from Google crawl so that it will only crawl that important pages.
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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.
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