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My adult blog’s theme has a built-in SEO component. It gives me the option of making tags indexable or not.
I have other blogs where I don’t even worry about it and I seem to be doing fine. Plus tags bring in a lot of traffic.
Do you make your tags indexable or not?
And why either way?
I have always just assumed that they are. Where is the setting for this? I have covered every pixel of every screen in WordPress and have never seen an option.
You can answer the question yourself… Think about the terms in your tags and categories – do you want traffic on those terms?
Definitely, it is a good way of targeting keywords.
It does create duplicate content in a way, with possibly some Tag pages being very similar to your category pages. But I can not see that being a big problem. Google does not mind duplicate content within a site too much, it will just give a preference to one of the instances rather than all of them, i.e. either the Tag or the Archive page will show up in searches.
This is very different from having no unique content or duplicate content on two different sites which is definitely not good.
Of course I want traffic on those terms, who doesn’t. But my problem is that I’ll have someone like you look at my blog and start going off about duplicate content. Everyone’s going off on duplicate content, but no one seems to be able to offer a solid definition of what duplicate content is.
So well-meaning people will say, “Oh that duplicate content,” and send you down a rabbit hole.
I’ve gotten a couple of other comments about this issue from an SEO board run by an SEOer that I trust. Here’s what they had to say:
– tags do create duplicate content
– shouldn’t be a problem as long as you’re not loading up the posts with them, a couple per post should be fine
– it’s not a good idea to use tags that you already use in categories, so if you have a hairy man category, you might want to use “bearded man” as a tag on the post and omit “hairy man”
– it’s not a good idea to use both tags on posts and tag clouds on your sidebar
– this SEOer says she’d put a nofollow on the tags.
IF you clearly define the focus of the page in the title tag (putting in a well optimized custom name for each tag), then in my experience there is no such thing as duplicate content penalties for pages on the same site. But remember – that snippet of code I gave you puts follow, noindex on everything after page 1 of each tag and category. My mantra is “every concept should have one and only one indexable page on your site and every page should have one and only one concept and that concept should be clearly defined in the page’s <title> tag.” Do that, and you’ll be fine.
it’s good although i would prefer not give too much works to bot google and makes their work more easy by the robot.txt so it focus on your content and could rank good enough but its just my opinion.
Ok, thanks for all the useful comments guys.
