Hey. I am not sure the best way to handle removing the tag categories from being indexed using sh404sef. I have a blog set up and really only want the articles themseves being indexed to save crawl budget but also the tag and category pages are not things I want to target for SEO but don't want to mess things up and end up hurting our SEO.
For example this page on the site is ranking well https://xxxx.com/marketing/charleston-search-engine-optimization
but I don't want google indexing https://xxxx.com/marketing
or https://xxxx.com/marketing/
or https://xxxx.com/tag/search-engine-optimization
or anything with /tag/ in the url
but I don't want to set that up arong and somehow remove articles so they don't get int=dexed if that makes sense. So all these articles have tags as well as categories associated with them but the actual blog articles if clicked on directly have this structure:
https://xxxx.com/marketing/what-is-influencer-marketing-and-how-does-it-work
https://xxxx.com/marketing/charleston-sc-social-media-marketing-experts-demystify-social
https://xxxx.com/marketing/selling-and-the-value-of-connection
so currently all in one main category https://xxxx.com/marketing/ ... that might change in the future to include another category but I don't thinks so.
Any help or direction you can provde as to how to do this safely ... mainly avoiding those tag and category pages from being paid attention to and focusing our crawl budget on the actual articles is the goal.
Many Thanks --- Alex