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[donsilvernail]

Should archives get a no-follow? Should i optimize content on archive pages for seo purposes such as adding meta descriptions.

Thank you

[RyanPurkey]

Hi Donald. Are you talking about the pages that group the older blog posts or just older blog posts themselves? If the latter keeping the links in them as standard is fine.  If you're having crawl issues with your site you may consider funneling link strength down specific sections of your site.  A little clarification might help with a better answer.  Cheers!

[anthonydnelson]

I would definitely recommend implementing NoIndex, Follow on Archive pages. On a blog, you want your Actual Posts and potentially even your post categories to rank. There is little chance page 3 for category/author has any value to the search engines so you should simply tell them to crawl the page but not index it.

[donsilvernail]

Thanks Anthony, that's what I was thinking as well!