Category hiding hurts search indexing and traffic
Excluding a category from listings leads to lost search traffic, indexing gaps and a flood of redirect warnings in Search Console.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 15 September 2022 · last reported 5 March 2025
What's going wrong
Site owners report that after hiding a category from listings, search engines stopped indexing posts or search traffic dropped sharply.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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