I need some input in configuring the all in one seo plugin for wordpress. I encountered one seo expert who advised against making anything noindex, including tags. He also advised against using categories for meta key words. Now I had my configurations set so that tags and archive pages are noindex, and I used categories for meta key words. What really is the best policy? Thanks, Crystite.
I like to keep tags as noindex too. If you just build more content then your blog will be more indexed when it really needs to be indexed: your posts!
It is still supported, they just released a new version but I haven't upgraded yet. I would put noindex on the tags as well, better yet, I wouldn't even use them, otherwise you will just end up with a bunch dup content pages.
It's still supported, I get update notifications about once a week I have noindex on the archive and tags, but not the categories
I remember many SEO sites recommending "noindex" of category and tag pages a long time ago, but even Google themselves said that if you are not "nofollowing" those pages, nothing bad will happen. Google keeps in mind that not everyone is into SEO - there are people in the general population running blogs who have never heard of "nofollow" or SEO for that matter, and they wouldn't be penalized for these things.