Index Category Archives?

[waynekolenchuk]

I'm using Wordpress categories to add products. Normally I normally noindex category archives to prevent duplicate content issues, with the blog page serving as the index, but I don't have one with this site http://66.147.244.50/~proflowc/

Should I index the category archives to ensure that products are indexed, or will Google see them anyway?

[applesofgold]

I recommend indexing the archives, but using a plugin called "Auto Excerpt Everywhere", which takes the 1st 100 words of your post or so (you can set it to whatever you want), and shows only that in combination with other items that are assigned to that category.

That way, you are getting a summary with a link to the complete post and not duplicating the entire content.

However, I don't know how much content your individual products have, so there might not be enough info to create a summary.

But generally, for regular blogs, this is what I do and it appears to work.