Are nofollow, noindex meta tags healthy for this particular situation?

[Ideas-Money-Art]

Hi mozzers,

I am conducting an audit for a client and found over 200 instances using meta tags(nofollow, noindex). These were implemented essentially on Blog pages/category pages, tags not blog posts which is a good sign.

I believe that tagged URLs aren't something to worry about since these create tons of duplicates. In regards to the category page, i feel that it falls in the same basket as tags but I am not positive about it.

Can someone tell me if these are fine to have noindex, nofollow?

Also on the website subnav which are related to the category pages mentioned prev, the webmaster have implemented noindex,follow(screenshot below), which seems ok to me? am i right?

Thanks

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[FedeEinhorn]

In any of those cases, archive pages, tag pages, author pages, etc, I would go with a noindex,follow. As you want the posts they link to to be indexed, but you don't need the tag (,etc.) pages indexed, just followed to let the pagerank flow and let search engines crawl the pages they link to (actual posts).

Hope that helps!

[Ideas-Money-Art]

Thank you Federico