Kendo
msg:4476121 | 5:17 pm on Jul 16, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Same deal when a spider cannot tell the difference between:
- cat.asp?id=124
- cat.asp?id=124&offset=30
- cat.asp?id=124&offset=60
- cat.asp?id=124&offset=90
- cat.asp?id=124&lang=english
- cat.asp?id=124&lang=french
- cat.asp?id=124&lang=german
- cat.asp?id=124&lang=spanish
Then you get an error report about duplicate pages.
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tedster
msg:4476122 | 5:18 pm on Jul 16, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Here's a video from Google's Matt Cutts that may help:
Do tag clouds help or hinder SEO? [youtube.com]
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Panthro
msg:4476130 | 5:30 pm on Jul 16, 2012 (gmt 0) |
IME, Google loves those tag pages for some reason. I had a problem with Panda on a site that had too many tags so I consolidated them and that has seemed to help.
(Edit: forgot to specify that I'm talking about WP) [edited by: Panthro at 6:25 pm (utc) on Jul 16, 2012]
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netmeg
msg:4476141 | 5:45 pm on Jul 16, 2012 (gmt 0) |
I block all tags. Always. Just a personal preference. That's for WordPress and Magento.
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mhansen
msg:4476159 | 6:29 pm on Jul 16, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Same here. We go a step farther and also create landing pages for each category as well, then noindex the Wordpress generated category pages also. We view auto-generated pages like WP categories and tags as pages for users who are already on the site, not to be indexed in search engines.
For tags, if the tag seems to warrant a page of its own that needs to be indexed, I will create a landing page, then wp_query all posts with that tag.
As far as the actual landing page goes, I just use a WordPress "Page", then use a "custom field" and some hand-rolled code in the functions.php file to drop in the catid or tagid.
My feeling is that bit of text needs to resolve to 1, and only 1, indexed url. I have no data saying that its better one way or another, but its my own pref and works for me.
MH
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klark0
msg:4476209 | 8:54 pm on Jul 16, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Instead of blocking them. I would advise you to do a "noindex,follow" meta tag. I wouldn't block feeds either.
Also ..why are you disallowing your themes directory? I think you'd want google to be able to access your js and css.
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zehrila
msg:4476225 | 10:17 pm on Jul 16, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Patterns and excessiveness of any thing is bad, tags are probably better off being Noindex, but keep them do follow!
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Sand
msg:4476237 | 10:34 pm on Jul 16, 2012 (gmt 0) |
It really depends on how you use them. I use my tag pages as navigation elements, when there are important similarities within posts of different categories. I let Google index those, because they're valuable pages (with the addition of some into paragraphs).
On the other hand, I have seen blogs where people tag posts with a dozen meaningless (to a search engine) things. In those cases, I'd no index the lot.
Ultimately, the answer will vary depending on how tags are incorporated into the overall structure of your site.
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chalkywhite
msg:4476510 | 7:55 pm on Jul 17, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Some good information here thanks, ive always wondered about tags. Ive noindexed them but set them to follow. Ive allowed categoreis to eb index as I use them for nav.
If you do a site:example.com after 20+pages you can see the tag pages however, its just a title with no meta info. Ive always wondered if this had a negative effect.
Al
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klark0
msg:4476520 | 8:16 pm on Jul 17, 2012 (gmt 0) |
@chalky ..that happens with me when I have the noindex,follow tag + disallow in robots. If I remove the disallow, they noindex,follow tags don't get indexed. I don't know ...maybe a weird issue with Google ?
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chalkywhite
msg:4476526 | 8:40 pm on Jul 17, 2012 (gmt 0) |
@klark0 I think I may try the disallow, was your syntax
Disallow: /tag/*/
Thanks
Al
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levo
msg:4476527 | 8:45 pm on Jul 17, 2012 (gmt 0) |
I've no experience with WP, but I would noindex tag pages with one (or 3-5?) entries.
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