1. Advertising
    y u no do it?

    Advertising (learn more)

    Advertise virtually anything here, with CPM banner ads, CPM email ads and CPC contextual links. You can target relevant areas of the site and show ads based on geographical location of the user if you wish.

    Starts at just $1 per CPM or $0.10 per CPC.

Which one is good for SEO? a post or page?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by dess71, Oct 19, 2017.

  1. #1
    I used to post my articles in the 'post' section of Wordpress. But now I learned that the tags URLs appear way higher in the search engines than the actual URL. Why is this happening? Can we prevent tag URLs to be indexed? Will it matter if I make a 'pages' post? I guess it may because pages do not have tags. Any clue? Thanks.
     
    dess71, Oct 19, 2017 IP
  2. dcristo

    dcristo Illustrious Member

    Messages:
    19,776
    Likes Received:
    1,199
    Best Answers:
    7
    Trophy Points:
    470
    Articles:
    7
    #2
    dcristo, Oct 19, 2017 IP
  3. dess71

    dess71 Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    960
    Likes Received:
    14
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    143
    #3
    Thanks but it still is a puzzle for me why the tags URL ranks higher in the search engines. Will check the page.
     
    dess71, Oct 20, 2017 IP
  4. kavita gour

    kavita gour Member

    Messages:
    1
    Likes Received:
    0
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    31
    #4
    block tags url through robots.txt after you have blocked google did not show in search term
     
    kavita gour, Oct 21, 2017 IP
  5. echo_unlimited

    echo_unlimited Notable Member

    Messages:
    1,204
    Likes Received:
    30
    Best Answers:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    240
    #5
    Noindex, follow is the correct way to do it. Google will still have the page in its index, but it just won't be able to crawl any updates on that page if you block the tags through robots.txt.

    Google's algorithms likely picked up that the tag pages were more relevant because they contained the keywords that it expected for the query and that it was looked to more often than your key guide page(s). Just noindex, follow those pages and you should be fine.
     
    echo_unlimited, Oct 21, 2017 IP
  6. Brucode

    Brucode Member

    Messages:
    24
    Likes Received:
    0
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    31
    #6
    As the tag url have your exact keywords & also in some cases the keyword density is quite high as compare to your specific page that is why it got indexed earlier. But you can use no index to get them away from SERPs.
     
    Brucode, Oct 24, 2017 IP
  7. dess71

    dess71 Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    960
    Likes Received:
    14
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    143
    #7
    I can use no index to get them away from SERPs but I am going to lose traffic b/c those URLs rank higher than the regular pages. That's what I am seeing happening.
     
    dess71, Oct 24, 2017 IP
  8. echo_unlimited

    echo_unlimited Notable Member

    Messages:
    1,204
    Likes Received:
    30
    Best Answers:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    240
    #8
    It's likely that your other pages will start ranking higher.
     
    echo_unlimited, Oct 25, 2017 IP
  9. dess71

    dess71 Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    960
    Likes Received:
    14
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    143
    #9
    Ok will try it and report back after some weeks
     
    dess71, Nov 3, 2017 IP