Should I block wordpress archive and tag?

[Akeif]

I use Wodpress and Wordpress SEO by Yoast. I've set ip up to add noindex meta tag on all archive and tag pages.

I don't think its useful to include thoses pages in search results because there's quite a few. Especialy the tag archive.

Should I consider anything else or change my mind?

What do you think?

Thanks

[SanketPatel]

Hi Frederic,

Its like keyword meta tag, some people still uses it. Archives and Tags helps visitors in navigating website, I personally prefer to put noindex meta robots tag on those pages because they will not look good in SERP.

[SteveTheWoodsman]

Matt Cutts addressed this back in 2007: 
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/sea...

Short answer: its best not to allow it as Google will drop it when they catch it.

Hope that helps!

[SoftzSolutions]

If the blog posts are accessible otherwise, you can go ahead and place the following meta tag in all the tags and archive pages –

[Akeif]

Ok thanks everyone. That's pretty much it.

I set this post a Ungoing discussions but it was really a specific questions.

Consider this answered.