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Ok well you just wrote a thesis on why I should use tags....and I get that...use em, love em, etc.
As a matter of fact all the blogs I've started since wordpress incorporated tagging only have one category....and everything else is organized by tags.
(On another note...before there were tags, I just made a shitload of categories to sub-niche the posts...so there are ALOT of blog posts of mine out there that have no tags at all...just niche categories....which is another reason the category pages are important to me on some blogs)
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My question was mainly about the category and tag pages being index or noindex in regards to spiders because of duplicate content.
The post content appears on the front page of the blog (or page 2 or 3 etc), it also appears on it's own single post page (domain.com/post-title/)
It will also appear in the date archive (domain.com/2008/08/)
It will also appear in the category archive (domain.com/category-slug/)
and in the tag archive (domain.com/tag-slug/)
Now it never occured to me to not allow the SE's to index any page of my blog(s), until I downloaded the All In One SEO Pack plugin and read the documentation....where it explained that it puts noindex in the category archives and other places by default to avoid "duplicate content"
That's what I wanted to discuss here. Has anyone noticed an increase in their rankings by doing this? Or do you get most of your SE traffic to the category/tag/date archive pages....and by noindex-ing them you'd lose alot of traffic?
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