Wordpress categories tags and robots.txt

[sfmatthews]

I am relatively new at this and see a variety of people that seem to disagree on if you should block google from indexing category and tag pages through robot.txt or no-follow because of google viewing it as duplicate content.

I tryst this communities answers over the web at large obviosly, so what do you all think?

Thanks, Steven

[attachmedia]

Hi Steven, the answer is relative to the size of the Site. For example, if you publish 10-15 articles by day is probably a good idea crawl the category pages because if just use Home Page a lot of articles will lost.

Other tip is use a diferent Title and description for category, try do not repeat the category and tag.

[RustyF]

There you go, that's what I saw. I was seeing warnings from google about duplicate titles and descriptions. I know how to change the category title but don't see an easy way to change the description. You do that for each article? How?

[sfmatthews]

Not that you would want to change plug-ins, but the Yoast SEO Plugin for Wordpress allows each category and/or tag to have its own custom title and description.