Tag archives in wordpress

[pycckuu]

I have duplicate content issue on my site, because i allow to index tags in my wordpress. And the content overlaps on them. What could be a solution to this?

How do i fight it, if still want my tag pages to be indexed in Google, but i don't want to to influence my traffic negatively?

Currently i have 596 tags!

Site:
richclubgirl.com

My idea was to put canonical tag for the post i want to rank from the most popular tag pages (with biggest page authority).

Would love to hear from You!

[MikeRoberts]

I wouldn't add a canonical from a Tag archive to a post (especially if there are multiple posts in the Tag archive).

The SEO value of Tags (and Categories) comes from them creating a hierarchy in your site as well as creating relevancy signals between all of the posts that appear in that Tag archive. If you have 596 tags and there are tons that only have 1 post in them then those one post Tags aren't helping you. You may need to consider cleaning up your tags, checking traffic and ranking for your tags, re-tagging posts to the most relevant tag with good traffic and/or rankings, deleting the useless non-relevant tags, and placing 301 redirects from the removed Tags to relevant tags.

We're currently going through the same steps on one of the sites I work for but in our case there are only 274 tags to deal with.

[WorldText]

"... if still want my tag pages to be indexed in Google, but i don't want to to influence my traffic negatively?"

Don't forget to consider how much value landing on a tag page gives to a site visitor (clue: usually none).  It's all very well indexing and ranking for some extremely long tail term via tags, but what's the human who lands on in going to make of it?  (Most likely contribute to that page's 100% bounce rate).

By all means keep tags, and use them consistently to categorise your posts, but as a means of keyword stuffing (as I'd suspect it is with nigh on 600 tags), the time is long since past  

Good luck!

[pycckuu]

About half of tags are actually one-post tags!

So what could be the best practice? To no-index tag pages? Some of the tag pages have good page authority and they are linked well (with internal links). Cleaning up tags would be a very tough task, i suppose!

Or may be i should no-index only one-post tags?

[SanketPatel]

Already answered here:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/should-i-block-wordpress-archive-and-tag

[pycckuu]

So the best solution would be:

noindex,follow
and allow it in robots.txt!

Am i right?

And is it okay that my Wordpress SEO plugin puts rel=canonical on tag pages?
See example:
http://richclubgirl.com/tag/rich-fashion-2/

[evolvingSEO]

That's exactly right!