Best practice to handle Wordpress Categories/Tags

[grobro]

Hello Mozzers,

I am sure a lot of people here are using wordpress. How do you handle Categories & Tags? I came across that they produce a lot of duplicate content in the google index. My website is brand new so I don't have any traffic yet, how would you handle it?

noindex, follow?

Or block /categories/ and /tags/ from robots.txt?

Probably I am completely wrong with both ways?

I am grateful for your answers!

Best regards!

[Ray-pp]

You're a lot closer than you think.

noindex/nofollow WordPress category and tag pages, they are duplicate content in most cases.

[Matt-Williamson]

I agree with Ray-pp in terms of duplicate content and tag pages - noindex/follow them - if you have Yoast SEO plugin it is just a matter of ticking a box.

In terms of your category pages and noindex/follow - this is up for debate as you may consider leaving them indexed and adding some unique content to them in terms of a category description.

For a great guide on setting WordPress up in terms of SEO have a look at this http://moz.com/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success

Be sure to have a read of the comments - in particular those by Kane Jamison.

Hope this helps

[grobro]

Thank you guys! I did it with the Yoast Plugin, works perfectly!