Mass noindex

I have hundreds of inner pages with thin content. The ironic thing is it's valuable content for the end user but since google might not like it I want to noindex the pages.

I can't find a way to noindex hundreds of pages. I can do it with posts, by bulk editing the category but can't find a way for pages in WP

So for example I want to noindex every page inside - www.mysite.com/directory/page1/
Page1.php is like a directory page links to hundreds of pages.

So I'v just added noindex to page1.php and I am hoping that it will automatically noindex outer pages linked from page1,
I don't know if that will work?? I just seen somebody say it does.

So I am hoping the following pages will become noindex:
www.mysite.com/directory/page1/anotherpage
www.mysite.com/directory/page1/anotherpage100
www.mysite.com/directory/page1/hundredsmore

I also put a text link back to the home page from page1

Anyone have some advice on this... I am tired so I am thinking to just wait and see in WMT what happens now.

No, this won't work. Noindex must be on each page. You're probably thinking of nofollow, which would tell google not to follow links on your page. Even with noindex, Google will follow links on the page.

mmm oh ye. back to the drawing board with this. Maybe I should restructure things a bit. Use posts instead of pages and then bulk noindex them

if simple html or php pages, then you can use textcrawler application to do a mass find and replace in all of your pages. find the line where you want to include the noindex line after, then do a find a replace on that line. Replace it with that line included, plus the new noindex line.

one thing though: if you have already done this, how did your ranking get impacted?

thanks in advance

Try the Ultimate Noindex Nofollow Plugin for Wordrpess.

What about robots.txt to no index at directory level?

brazzened said:

What about robots.txt to no index at directory level?

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apparently that seems to be a better idea
see this https://moz.com/community/q/robots-txt-how-to-exclude-sub-directories-correctly

For a quick fix, go into Google Webmaster Tools > Remove URL and add this url: www.mysite.com/directory/page1/

This will remove all the instances of /page1/.

however for a permanent fix, you need to add no-index to each page individually.