Tag Archive Pages With Zero Articles: Empty Pages Bloating the Sitemap
Tag pages render but have 0 published articles after a cleanup. Audit tag counts, set a minimum-per-tag prebuild rule, and 410 the empty archives so Google drops them fast.
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Tag pages render but have 0 published articles after a cleanup. Audit tag counts, set a minimum-per-tag prebuild rule, and 410 the empty archives so Google drops them fast.
Google indexed every tag archive page, but your article pages are stuck in Discovered or Crawled - currently not indexed. Here is why, and the link-distribution fix.
800 tags, 600 with 1-2 articles each = 600 thin archive pages Google won't index. Set a per-tag article threshold, merge synonyms, noindex the rest, keep them out of the sitemap.