Question

If you create a category and its slug is category/keyword. com and redirect it to a custom page that you want to rank for, would you index the category? Cheers

Answer 1

That question makes no sense.  

Comments

@vanda  

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@thorlie how can a slug have a . com in it?  

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@vanda Special characters are allowed in URLs. It's just not a best-practice.  
https://www.urlencoder.io/learn/

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@luciolucita32 I'm still feeling rather disturbed by all this.  

Answer 2

If it has some custom content on it yeah. The URL doesn’t make much odds to how to deal with category robot rules.  

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@luciolucita32 OK ta very much  

Answer 3

If you're redirecting the URL you cannot properly index it, although you might be able to get a search engine to show URL-only listings by linking to the redirected URL. I don't see the value in attempting to do this.