Yoast SEO Plugin: To Index or Not to index Categories?

[webestate]

Taking a poll out there......In most cases would you want to index or NOT index your category pages using the Yoast SEO plugin?

[irvingw]

yes noindex,follow category and tag pages. It's the Yoast default setting i believe.

[DaveMri]

Noindex is the way to go for category pages. I also don't let G index tags and archives.

[webestate]

HI Irving,

The Yoast default doesn't have anything checked making everything indexable and their tutorials don't do a very good job at helping people set it up correctly.

It's interesting to know all the differing opinions on what you should have indexed or not indexed.

Here are the settings I have:

Categories - noindex, follow

Tags - noindex, follow

Format - noindex, follow

Author Archives - noindex, follow and disable author archives

Date Archives - noindex, follow and disable the date-based archives

Media - noindex, follow

[webestate]

Thanks Dave!

Here are my settings:

Categories - noindex, follow

Tags - noindex, follow

Format - noindex, follow

Author Archives - noindex, follow and disable author archives

Date Archives - noindex, follow and disable the date-based archives

Media - noindex, follow