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Originally Posted by d-null
I am seeing the logic of excluding categories and indexing tags
my only caveat is that I wonder about changing anything once a blog is already well indexed, google doesn't like a sudden disallow showing up for a site that is indexed in that category all over the place already..... I lean towards not changing something that I have had going for awhile and starting new stuff using that technique instead  |
If its well indexed, but not receiving traffic, and has no real listings, I would do what you need to do to get it up. It could cost a few hundred clicks today but pay off a few thousand a day for years.
Anysite that is in its good favor though, I agree, I wouldnt change it all without a solid game plan. You can do it, you just need to do it right.
Also, this is a real valueble little include I've come to love. Stick it in your header.
It will add a noindex follow to your search pages, I've had hundreds of pages get spidered on some themes incorrectly cause its chasing down site searches in the blog. Just dont let it index the search results, save alot of headache.
Code:
<?php if (is_search() ) {
echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" /> ';
}?>
Watch your site:domainname.com searches in Google, make sure you know what they are and arent spidering. Wordpress will serve them up content forever, and you dont want it too. (allthough new releases of WP are far superior in this field)