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Hi Bhamu,

we are not talking about no follow here. We are talking about no index.

So you should set to no index all archive pages of Wordpress, meaning categories, author and tags, basically all the pages that are collections of other pages (or posts).

Setting those archive pages to no follow would be a mistake, because you'd miss the link juice propagation to all the pages of your site.

Hope it helps,

DoMiSol

I am in the same condition: how long should I wait for Google to reindex and rerank the site?

I don't want to mess with 301, even my Host has a DirectAdmin panel that allows me to redirect without editing the.htacces file.

Am I getting penalties from Google in the meantime?

Thanks,

DoMiSol