Originally Posted by Jdoughs

I answered your questions, and then tried to back it up with an explanation as to why it works for me, or works period. The only other thing I could show you to show the validity of what I said, would be serps using the technique.

It wont cost you traffic to noindex the categories, you have more to lose by the duplicate content devaluating your posts, and having the content on multiple pages (exerpt also helps this).

I allow indexing of the main index, the post page, the feed, and the tags. Thats it. Everyone of them has solid link weight and is a strong. I can show you some examples as I said, but not here.