Why are my search results showing Archives?

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I've recently started using Yoast SEO for my new wordpress eCommerce store.
But when I do an index search for example site:mystore I keep getting Archived search results. I have about 2 pages on Google search results but al least 6 Archives similar to the example below.

Men's leather shoes Archived-mystorename (All in Blue)
storename-Product Tagged-Men's leather shoes (all in green)
Home>products tagged, men's leather shoes, Showing all 28 results, default sorting (black)

I've never seen this before with other stores so I think it maybe the Yoast SEO tool.
Appreciate any advice as you no doubt can tell, I'm very green to all this!
#archives #results #search #showing
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnVianny
    Try to turn off Yoast, ping back your site, and see the results in some week.
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  • Profile picture of the author mikeb222
    What does "ping back to site" mean?
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  • Profile picture of the author Noman Asghar
    Go to the theme settings and mark your archive and tags as meta=noindex.
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    • Profile picture of the author mikeb222
      Originally Posted by Noman Asghar View Post

      Go to the theme settings and mark your archive and tags as meta=noindex.
      Can't find it in Theme settings.
      Do you mean settings in the wordpress admin as the Theme does have it's own settings?
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      • Profile picture of the author Noman Asghar
        Yes, in the Appearence> Themes.
        There's a separate theme setting. As well you can use a plugin called "Easy Noindex And Nofollow by Ivan" to noindex the pages which you want.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Originally Posted by Noman Asghar View Post

    Yes, in the Appearence> Themes.
    There's a separate theme setting. As well you can use a plugin called "Easy Noindex And Nofollow by Ivan" to noindex the pages which you want.
    Every theme is different. Your theme may not have this option.

    If you are using Wordpress, don't install another plugin to do this. You want to use as few plugins as possible because most of them are serious security risks. They also often slow your website down.

    If you are already are using Yoast, it is an option under Titles & Metas.

    Honestly though, I don't think I would bother. Having an archive page indexed is not really a bad thing unless it is outranking a page you would rather have ranking for a specific query.
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  • Profile picture of the author mikeb222
    I've searched other sites and they don't seem to have this archive problem, so I don't understand.
    Anyway, I've gone into Yoast SEO Titles & Metas, under archives and set both the Author & Date archives to disabled.
    Is that right?

    It does state that you may need to change the themes settings, but I looked under the theme settings and there wasn't anything to change (using Kakina Theme)
    Wow, this is sooo complicated.
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  • Profile picture of the author mikeb222
    I now have product colour showing on my indexing?
    Haven't seen this before-does it matter at all?
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  • Profile picture of the author linksberg
    Mark as noindex your archive, category, tags pages using Yoast or the Themes option.
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