In Wordpress getting marked as duplicate content for tags

[limited7]

Moz is marking 11 high priority items for duplicate content. Just switched to wordpress and publishing articles for the site but only have a few.  The problem is on the tag pages.  Since there aren't very many articles so when you go to the tag pages it lists one or two articles and hence there are pages with duplicate content. Most of the articles have the same tags / categories.

Perhaps I'm using too many tags and categories?  I'm using about 7 tags and around 2 categories for each post / event.

I've read the solution is using canonical tags but a little confused on which page I should use for the tag and then I believe I need to point the duplicate pages to the correct page.

For example, I have two events that are for dances and both have the same tags. So when you visit, site.com/tags/dance  or site.com/events  both pages have the same articles listed.  Which page do I select as having the original content?  Does it matter?  Does that make sense?

Someone was also saying I could use the Yoast plugin to fix, but not really seeing anything in the Yoast tools. I also see 301 redirects mentioned as a solution but the tag pages will be changing as we add new articles and they have a purpose so not really seeing that as a solution.

[Mobilio]

We just talk about this today here:
https://moz.com/community/q/default-robots-txt-in-wordpress-should-i-change-it

And here are Yoast configuration settings:
https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/meta-robots-wordpress-plugin/
https://yoast.com/prevent-site-being-indexed/

Since WordPress robots.txt is "virtual" file you need to create new file in root folder of site (usually this is same WP folder) and create that file. This is only where you need to edit it.

[GastonRiera]

I agree with Peter.

But, I believe that you have the problem that your tags are indexing and shouldn't be. Check out the config in the YOAST plugin and check to non-index.
This is the YOAST Tutorial: LINK.

Hope it helps.
GR

[MattRoney]

For what it's worth, our advice for this is generally to noindex the tag pages, as they're generally not pages that need to rank.

[limited7]

Thanks that's what we ended up doing with Yoast.