Should Tags and categories be noindex?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by luckymoksha, Sep 12, 2014.

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    Anyone pls guide me that Should Tags and categories be noindex?
    Its good for website?
     
    luckymoksha, Sep 12, 2014 IP
  2. ThreeGuineaWatch

    ThreeGuineaWatch Well-Known Member

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    Are you talking about a WordPress site? For a bog-standard blog, your tag, category, and archive pages will all likely carry content that is found elsewhere on the blog so you are probably not going to gain much from having them indexed. If you are doing something a little fancier, for example using an e-commerce plug-in etc., then you might not want to noindex categories as you you might have unique content on those pages.
     
    ThreeGuineaWatch, Sep 12, 2014 IP
  3. maddenitrous

    maddenitrous Well-Known Member

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    I would index the categories and deindex the tags.
     
    maddenitrous, Sep 12, 2014 IP
  4. George Peirson

    George Peirson Active Member

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    I agree with maddenitrous. A good concept with a WordPress blog site is to use categories for site navigation and organization, then use the tags for keywords. With that setup you would want to index the categories and not index the tags. Also make sure that you don't duplicate categories in your tags or tags in your categories.
     
    George Peirson, Sep 13, 2014 IP
  5. rankwatch.com

    rankwatch.com Active Member

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    Tags and categories can be indexed. Do ensure that you have only a limited number of tags per post.
     
    rankwatch.com, Sep 16, 2014 IP
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    james121 Greenhorn

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    Both should be index because this will be good for getting ranking fast on search engine.
     
    james121, Sep 17, 2014 IP
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    patco Well-Known Member

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    It's strongly recommended for a Wordpress sites to do this! I am just not sure how many tags is the maximum :p Never thought about this :D
     
    patco, Sep 18, 2014 IP