Tag pages - what to do?

[Ramian]

Hello,

I have a Wordspress website with more than 10K Tag pages (ex. www.example.com/tag/barack-obama .

Some of them with less than 2 articles.
I think it is bad and might hurt me later.
What is your recommendation?

[edited by: goodroi at 11:36 am (utc) on Mar 18, 2015]
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[netmeg]

I don't use tags in most of my WordPress sites, but when I do, I block them to keep them out of Google.

[Ramian]

I HAVE GREAT RANKING ON TAG PAGES ...

[netmeg]

But you just said you think it's bad and might hurt you later? Can't really have it both ways.

Personally, I think tag pages are low quality, and I'd rather not land on one when I'm searching. I think Google probably considers them similar to search results pages, and I think you're right that you won't keep the ranking on them in the long term.

[rish3]

If you don't want one of those big clunky SEO plugins, there's a plugin called "Ultimate Noindex Nofollow Tool II" that just allows a very simple way to mark tag (or category, date-based archives, etc) pages with the meta robots noindex tag.