Need advice for new site's structure

[salvyy]

Hi everyone,

I need to update the structure of my site www.chedonna.it

Basicly I've two main problems:

1. I've 61.000 index tag (more with no post)2. The category of my site are noindex

I thought to fix my problem making the category index and the tag noindex, but I'm not sure if this is the best solution because I've a great number of tag idexed by Google for a long time.

Mybe it is correct just to make the category index and linking it from the post and leave the tag index.

Could you please let me know what's your opinion?

Regards.

[OlegKorneitchouk]

If its ranking well, don't mess with it. If its not, I would flip the two (index categories, noindex tags). The main problem with indexing so many tag pages are the duplicate issues that arise. The same post blurbs are repeated on 5+ tag pages and the tag pages don't have any unique content.

If you index just the categories, you can write up a unique, keyword targeted description for each category. This would consolidate your pages and give more authority to each, as well as reduce the instances of duplicate content.

[salvyy]

Hi Oleg, thanks for your answer.

So what's your final suggest?

Have a nice day.

[TommyTan]

Hi,

What is the reason for fixing the structure?  What is the problem you mentioned in the question? Is it because the tags are causing duplication or some other reason?  If you are ranking well in SEO with the tags, you should just leave the structure as is.

However, if you really want to update the structure of your site, i would index category and noindex tags to avoid duplicate content issue.

Hope this helps

[salvyy]

Hi Tommy, sorry for my english, I'll do my best to explain you why I would like to change the structure of my site.

I think that for SEO is better to have the category index and push it is better than tag. The main problem is that at the moment my site has 61.000 tag more of them with zero post in: don't you think that it means bad content for Google?

Also, don't you think that it means high bounce rate?

Thanks for your advice and have a nice day!

[TommyTan]

Hi,

In SEO sense, I don't think it matters whether it is tags or category as long as Google is able to crawl your content and you removed or noindex all your duplicate content/pages.  By using SEO by Yoast, category and tags are not different. You can noindex/nofollow both and you can create custom SEO titles and descriptions for both.

However, for the purpose of restructuring your site and adding customized headers,

Hope this helps!

[salvyy]

Thank you so much Tommy!