Should I build links to wordpress category pages?

[SamCUK]

Hi guys,

I'm working on http://www.top-10-dating-reviews.com and planto build links to the category pages - is that the best strategy for a comparison site like this? This is a wordpress site and I read that category pages should be no indexed is that the case? If so then obviously I'd be wasting my time building links to these pages as google wouldn't index them anyway.

Any advice on the best strategy for link building would be much appreciated!

[dawnieando]

We've had some of our best results by deep link building into category pages on Wordpress sites.  I would make sure that you get a good home page / deep link ratio going.  We try to go with 60-70% home page and the remainder selected category pages.

[SamCUK]

Thanks for your reply. So if I make the category pages indexable by google won't I run into duplicate content problems?

[dawnieando]

What duplicate content would it be outputting?

It is outputting related content dynamically and will differ from your other pages won't it?

[evolvingSEO]

Samuel

To avoid duplicate titles/descriptions for category pages you should noindex subpages - these are pages like /category/category-name/page/3/

-Dan