Dead_Elvis - 3:05 am on Sep 28, 2006 (gmt 0)

"noindex" is a page attribute, so no, it wouldn't cause a problem with other pages deeper in your site–unless of course you use nofollow as well.

If you block it in Robots.txt then that would be a different story ;)

I had this same duplicate content problem, but it didn't become a problem until I got some serious link juice, which caused Google to finally deep-crawl my site, and hence find all of those category pages.

I managed to fix it via robots.txt and meta noindex tags.

Works like a dream, but may take a while for Google to sort it out once you make the changes.

I now only allow indexing of my index page, and my post pages. Everything else is blocked.

[edited by: Dead_Elvis at 3:06 am (utc) on Sep. 28, 2006]