Matt,
Your response here and on the other post are both extremely helpful.
So syndication is a very important mechanism for referral traffic, but if I waited a few days for the original content to get indexed first before syndicating. I increase chances of Google associating acknowledging the original article.
What still strikes me as strange here is that the syndicated posts contain very small snippets. But you are saying the DA of these sites carries that much power.
In terms of the categories and tags issue, I guess this depends on how the site uses taxonomies: some sites use multiple categories and tags for a post, while others are more strict, using one category and/or tag per article.
I understand the logic behind no-indexing tags and categories vs. archives, but is there a use case for no indexing archives and tags, leaving categories?
Thanks much!
Aaron
