: Might category noindex prevent indexing of other pages on Yandex? On my website I put noindex on my category pages but not the pages under it. Even though two weeks passed, the only indexed

@Alves908

Bot can't understand which is directory and which is not, due to there are many server side configuration to use trailing slash or not, if webmaster want.

Your category and category/ both will treat same, because when you open category page, it might be redirect to category or vice versa, if not then still your noindex tag will be display on that pages, hence yandex will not going to index it. They just look all the webpages weather you have set redirection properly or not, if they see noindex tag on those pages, they will not going to index it.

Your other pages like category/page.html will be index by yandex, because on that page there is no meta noindex tag.

Meta tags apply to page level only, it will not apply to whole directory subpages.

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@BetL925

pages are indexed if:


they haven't noindex,
they have incoming links (internal and/or external),
incoming links to them aren't nofollow.
bot has uninterrupted url path from its entry point to page, which should be indexed, like: entry url links to url1 (no nofollow) -> url1 links to url2 (no nofollow) -> url2 links to url should be indexed (no nofollow) -> url, which should be indexed (<meta name="robots" content="index" />)

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