Few questions regarding wordpress and indexing/no follow.

[NoahsDad]

I'm using Yoast's Wordpress SEO plugin on my wordpress site which allows you to quickly set up nofollow / no index on specific taxonomies. I wanted to see what you guys thought was the best practice in setting up my various taxonomies.

Would you noidex, but follow all of these, none of these, or just some of these:

Categories, tags, media, author archives ( (My blog is mainly a single author blog (me) but my wife does sometimes write posts. So I didn't know how this effected everything. Also I could simply make the blog a single user blog and just have her posts be guest posts, but I'd rather leave her as a user.), and  date archives.

The example I read on line only no-index's the date archives. Just curious what you guys thought.

Thanks.

[Saijo.George]

Someone is a happy Panda ^_^

If you have structured you site well and don't go overboard with Categories / Tags then by all means leave them to be indexed BUT make sure to add a Title and Description for each of those Categories and Tags.

With Media I find it useful to index them .. made sure you add a alt tag for you images and add relevant titles for them.

Author Archives : If it's a single person blog then I would suggest to avoid using them and add a noindex to author archives BUT since your wife contributes to the blog my advice is to leave them as indexable ( make sure you add a Title and Description for this as well)

Adding a NOFOLLOW will tell the bot not to follow any links from that page. I usually don't add that.

[NoahsDad]

Thanks for the help.

By the way, who is the happy panda?

[Saijo.George]

No Worries .. I was referring to the avatar pic you use

[evolvingSEO]

Hi There...

Definitely check out the SEO for WordPress post I did for Moz. I wrote it for those very types of questions.

However, to answer a little more specifically in your case, I would;

Index

• Categories
• Pages
• Posts

Noindex

• Author
• Dates
• Media
• Tags
• Search results

Follow

• Everything

Disable

• Nothing (in your case, you have two authors, so make the pages accessible, just not indexed)

NOTE: This is assuming (as Saijo says) you have the structure set up correctly. Usually this means;

• 5-8 Categories
• As many tags as you want
• Categories are more general (the 5-8 topics covering the whole blog)
• Tags are more specific fine tunings of categories
• Categories and Tags are all different from one another

Hope this helps!

-Dan

[NoahsDad]

Thanks Dan. This is great info, and your post was great. Right now I'm ont really using tags, and just using categories (around 4.) I'm about to start adding a few more categories and some child categories.

If you get a chance feel free to check out my site and see if my structure look ok. I'd appreciate it.

[NoahsDad]

Ha,ha..Oh sorry! I didn't catch that.

And yah, he is one happy little panda.