: Should I let Google index tag archives on wordpress? I'm working on SEO for my WordPress page, and I'm having second thoughts about having my tag archive indexed. I'm not using categories at

I'm working on SEO for my WordPress page, and I'm having second thoughts about having my tag archive indexed. I'm not using categories at all, so I've set robots to noindex, follow for category overviews, making tags the main taxonomy.

Part of me says that having tag archives indexed is useful because those pages are full of content around one specific keywords, and they also link to more pages concerning those keywords. Also, the posts are truncated with a 'read more' link, so there's not going to be a problem with duplicate content.

On the other hand, these pages might dilute the pagerank for my actual posts. What is the use of people finding my tag archive pages if they could also find actual articles? Wouldn't it be better to just follow the links in my tag archives but not have those pages indexed?

Should I index them or just let google follow the links?

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If you're going to block your tag archives then you also need to remove the tag cloud from your pages as you'll still be diluting PR as PR is sent to every page you link to even those with nofollow or blocked by robots.txt. Those pages don't get to keep that PR but the PR is sent to them anyway diluting the PR sent to your other pages.

I say let those pages be indexed. They're a great way to target specific keywords and can drive traffic to your website. I don't think by hiding them from the search engines that you'll be doing yourself any good.

I also think you're paying way too much attention to PR. Yes, it's a Google ranking factor, but it's nothing to go removing pages from Google's index for.

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