n00b-ish saying hello

welcome to the forum

thanks- i messaged you about some design cheers

Welcome to GFY William

Hello and welcome!

thanks folks!

p00b-ish here, saying welcome

Welcome to the zoo!

Thanks! Interesting niche... solid sometimes not so solid traffic?

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Welcome Williamsevenup

SEO advice is hard to come by here and I'm guessing it's because there's a lot of people advertising for paid services. OK I have a question for you

Sitemaps
Is it best to include posts, pages, categories and tags?
As we all know Google's constantly changing their algorithms and how they crawl duplicate content

What's your take?

Moobs or GTFO

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Welcome aboard . . .

Wasssup?

Enjoy your stay..

B

Ultimately sitemaps its about indexing and if your site has crawl issues then sitemap just tells big G about any pages its missed;
consideration of what to index is based on which pages you want to rank - you dont want to canibalise your own pages ability to rank ie; 2 pages targetting 'bbw asses' [category and tag] but then anothyer 100 or so pages/videos that kinda target the same -

for a regular simple site where you might have just a single page targetting a single main keyword - or post - then I do not index tags ever [they are kinda useless] categories only makes sense if you have enough content within each category to merit its own page - but then each category should also have some unique content added to it - hypothetical category being 'facebook ads tutorials' or something more broad

with a big tube site - if you have a look at something like xvideos or pornhub etc - they basically index everything and the stuff that ranks for the single/2 word big searches are either indexed search pages or tags or categories its rarely single posts
so for those i would index everything because you are wanting to rank for all the long tails provided by single posts - but also bigger searches provided by a tag or category.

if you ahve a big enough site then the titles of each post under each tag or category will be enough that those pages are not identical - but once you have the data lets say you ahve a tag 'bbw asses' and a category 'bbw asses' one is ranking #20 and the other #36 then I would consolidate to the one ranking higher ie redirect one to the other - and add some unique content to the one ranking higher say 500 words - then most likley its going to move up way faster than just leaving both.

hope that gives some ideas!
there isnt really a once size fits all approach its about maximising your site size (bigger sites rank better faster and easier) vs reducing cannibalisation.


edit: the real question here is a about robots.txt and whether you are setting things to noindex follow or letting it index

Are you sure you don't want to hit the back button?

i've been lurking a bit - made sense to get involved

Welcome to the GFY, williamsevenup. Take a look at MrAdultAffiliate.com as well. Have lot of luck.

Some great info williamsevenup. Thanks for your input

hey ya, welcome and congrats, coming out of the closet