Comments on: How to Make Your WordPress Category Pages Search Engine (and People) Friendly

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:49:52 +0000

In reply to Derek Halpern. Just set sub-pages to be noindex within Thesis meta tags options - job done, no plugins needed!

By: Jack Trades

Jack Trades — Wed, 30 May 2012 15:53:17 +0000

True, Thesis is not just “a theme”, it’s the theme.

By: Detective Bryan

Detective Bryan — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:06:35 +0000

I started giving a good description about my categories after going through this post. Traffic and rankings have not seen a sharp rise, but something significant. Thanks for the post 🙂

By: Susan S.

Susan S. — Tue, 08 May 2012 02:39:22 +0000

Hi,

I’d just like to increase the number of posts listed on my Category page from three to five. Anyone know the easiest way to do that?

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 03:23:59 +0000

Is having the word “category” in your URL a bad thing when it comes to search engines finding a particular page of your site?
I have a site http://pgtonline.net which I created with dreamweaver, which doesn’t have this problem (if it is a problem).
I also have a site which I created with wordpress http://custom-guitar-straps.net where this idea seems to be prevalent in every post I make.
I included the links to show as an example, hope that’s ok.

By: Andres

Andres — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:58:01 +0000

Hi Derek, awesome article! I’ve a related question if you don’t mind. I’m currently using Thesis but it won’t let me edit any of the “SEO Details” for categories. In other words, I hit on editing a category and all I get is Name, Slug, Parent, and Description. I’m interested in editing the “Introductory Content” for my categories but the option is just not there! I’ve heard something about this being a bug. Any thoughts on this?

Thanks!

By: Ganti

Ganti — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:44:06 +0000

In reply to Chris Pearson.

Hi Chris,
I don’t know how old this thread is. I bought thesis few months back and just started using it. I was trying to go to http://www.pearsonified.com/web-design to read and my avast anti-virus prevented me from going there. Can you please check and make sure that your site has not been hacked. I will also send this message through email in the support. I really would like to read the contents of this blog. Do you have any information on building Silo-structured website only using pages. I know some people do not believe in that, but I like the concept and want to build sites based on that. Thank you for your reply.

By: ZombieBodhi

ZombieBodhi — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:39:58 +0000

In reply to Vijay Sharma.

Hi Vijay,

I use the WP No Category Base plugin which seems to do the trick and gets rid of that uneccesarry /category/ branch in your URL. Here’s the plugin page:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-no-category-base/

Hope that Helps!

By: Jeyakumar

Jeyakumar — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:50:32 +0000

Very useful information on category page seo. Early, I used to maintain separate post for listing category pages. Now I will try with your concept. Thank you very much.

By: Derek Halpern

Derek Halpern — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:49:14 +0000

In reply to Azher. Personally, I believe you should use the plugin "Different posts per pages" and disable category pagination. Show all posts on the same page.