Author archives

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Overview

Each user profile has one SEO control: whether search engines may index that author’s archive (/author/name/).

Where to find this setting

  1. In the WordPress admin, go to Users
  2. Edit a user
  3. Find SEO Visibility → Author Archive No-Index

Fields

  • Stop search engines from indexing this author's archive page? — asks search engines to leave that author archive out of their results

Tips

  • Turn this on for staff accounts that should not have a public author index, or when you already list people on a directory page.
  • Posts the person wrote stay in search. Only the archive page that lists them is hidden.
  • On a single-author site (one person has published posts), the author archive only repeats the blog, so Dirigible SEO hides it from search engines and the sitemap on its own. It shows again once a second author publishes (within a day).

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