Many Grow features serve bookmarks to posts and pages on your site to readers, but there are cases where a publisher might not want to direct all traffic to a specific post or page. These might be archive pages that don’t have ads and won’t monetize well, members-only pages, seasonal posts that are not currently in season, or affiliate posts.
To ensure the best user experience possible, Grow allows publishers to exclude specific posts from Grow’s features!
When you choose to exclude a post, you will be preventing it from appearing in all Grow features. That means excluding a post removes it from Recommended Content widgets, Automailer emails, and Grow’s Search experience. Readers can still access these posts, but Grow will not drive traffic to them with its recommendation engine.
How to Exclude Single Posts in Grow
To exclude single posts in Grow, you’ll navigate to Grow Publisher Portal and click Grow Settings > Recommended Content in the siderail. From there, you’ll scroll down to the Pages to Exclude section.
In the Pages to Exclude section, you’re able to search for specific posts with keywords, titles, and more. Once you’ve located the post you wish to exclude, click Exclude. You can do this as many times as you need to exclude the posts you do not wish to appear in Grow’s features.
When you’re done excluding posts, scroll down and click Save Changes in the bottom right to remove the posts from Grow.
If you would like to restore posts to Grow’s features, all you need to do is head back to the Pages to Exclude section to find your list of excluded posts. From there, you’ll find the post you’d like to include in Grow features and click the include button. Don’t forget to click Save Changes in the bottom right corner to add the posts back to Grow.
How to Exclude Multiple Posts in Grow
Grow also supports excluding multiple posts at a time by applying custom URL filters. Whether or not this works for your site depends on your site’s URL structure. If your permalinks don’t include a common slug, it is likely better to exclude individual posts and pages.
For example, if my permalinks for posts in the Recommended Content category all began with demo.grow.me/recommended-content/, I could add a custom URL filter for /recommended-content/ to remove any Recommended Content posts from Grow.
Ready to exclude posts from Grow features?
Head to Grow Publisher Portal to get started!
These related articles may be helpful:
