How to add noindex to feeds

[TravG]

Hi all.

On my one website I have a news section which I use WordPress for. In looking at my Google metrics, I am getting a listing of the feeds for all the posts, categories and tags which Google says cannot be indexed. So it is showing 81 pages which are crawled but cant be indexed. When I test the "live page" of the feed, it does then show it can be indexed. So.....

Should I add a noindex tag to all of these feed pages or request indexing for all the pages? On a separate website somehow and the feed pages are already set and tagged noindex. I personally wouldn't think the feed should be in the Google index but just wondering what best practices are?

Thanks for any help,

Travis

[Christiaan]

Usually you don't index the feeds as it is the same content as the normal pages on your website.

Instead of adding a noindex tag on all the seperate pages you could choose to put a line in your robots.txt which is usually easier. Or use a plugin like Yoast that does it for you.