When To Delete Tag Or Category Pages: Google Explains Well

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An SEO asked Google’s John Mueller, when is it protected to delete tag and/or category pages on your site. John replied that you can remove those pages with no real impact and effect on your organic search traffic if those pages have “almost no traffic or zero visibility of those pages.”

This question came up in this past Friday’s SEO hangout where an SEO asked “I have a WordPress blog in which I have created a few tags and categories. So, what happens – now I need to want to delete all those categories and tags. These tags we made for some posts, yet these tags do not have any backlinks. Moreover, these categories likewise don’t have any backlinks. Furthermore, on the off chance that I erase, what will happen? Google will down my rankings, or it won’t.”

John said in a reply, “So, just in light of the fact that there are no external links to those pages doesn’t imply that Google would not have the option to find them. So that is somewhat the primary thing, on the grounds that particularly assuming you have posts that have categories and tags on them, you have links from the posts to the categories and tags pages.”  Then explained how to look to see whether these categories and tags pages have any visibility and perceivability. “So what I would take a gander at there, instead of external links is how those pages are currently being appeared and are shown. So, in Search Console in the Performance report, take a gander at the individual tag and category pages or the group of those pages. And afterward, based on that, you can settle on a decision. Can I simply delete these pages? Do I have to redirect them or not? Assuming there’s basically no traffic or no visibility of those pages, then cleaning that up is perfectly fine”, added John.

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When To Delete Tag Or Category Pages: Google Explains Well

An SEO asked Google’s John Mueller, when is it protected to delete tag and/or category pages on your site. John replied that you can remove those pages with no real impact and effect on your organic search traffic if those pages have “almost no traffic or zero visibility of those pages.”

This question came up in this past Friday’s SEO hangout where an SEO asked “I have a WordPress blog in which I have created a few tags and categories. So, what happens – now I need to want to delete all those categories and tags. These tags we made for some posts, yet these tags do not have any backlinks. Moreover, these categories likewise don’t have any backlinks. Furthermore, on the off chance that I erase, what will happen? Google will down my rankings, or it won’t.”

John said in a reply, “So, just in light of the fact that there are no external links to those pages doesn’t imply that Google would not have the option to find them. So that is somewhat the primary thing, on the grounds that particularly assuming you have posts that have categories and tags on them, you have links from the posts to the categories and tags pages.”  Then explained how to look to see whether these categories and tags pages have any visibility and perceivability. “So what I would take a gander at there, instead of external links is how those pages are currently being appeared and are shown. So, in Search Console in the Performance report, take a gander at the individual tag and category pages or the group of those pages. And afterward, based on that, you can settle on a decision. Can I simply delete these pages? Do I have to redirect them or not? Assuming there’s basically no traffic or no visibility of those pages, then cleaning that up is perfectly fine”, added John.

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