De-Index Categories

How do I de-index category and author pages in wordpress? I have full posts on homepage and then google has also indexed my categories yet again showing full posts. I dont want the duplicate content.

Yoast plugin does that thing easily by adding 'noindex' to tags/category/author etc. pages.Or you may get the URLs of those pages and submit content removal requests to Google through Webmasters Tools
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663419?hl=en

kbklash said:

Yoast plugin does that thing easily by adding 'noindex' to tags/category/author etc. pages.Or you may get the URLs of those pages and submit content removal requests to Google through Webmasters Tools
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663419?hl=en

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what if its a PBN and I dont wannt point GWT at it? lol.

Is there another way besides yoast and GWT?

Use robot.txt to make it no-follow

Disallow:/category/
Disallow:/author/

or try with PHP


<?php if ( is_page_template( 'category-page.php' ) )
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
endif;
?>
Add it to your header.

You can also do that in Google Webmaster Tools.

Here are the steps to follow:

1) Login to Google Webmaster tool
2) Site dashboard > Optimization > Remove URL's
3) Add www.domain.com/author-page and www.domain.com/category/ and select Remove directory option.
4) Hit submit request, all categories and tag pages will be out of Google index within 24-48 hours of removal request.

Also, make sure you use the noindex option for tags and categories pages in WordPress SEO by yoast or Meta robots plugin so that it never get indexed again.