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Hi guys,

I saw a blog post recently where the author added a list of "incoming search queries" to the bottom of his post, obviously to improve the post's ranking for those terms.

On one hand, I suppose it it does help users find that post. On the other, it seems lazy and somewhat dodgy, but I haven't found any opinions on it elsewhere and have not seen this practice in my experience.

What're your thoughts? Outright search engine manipulation?

Cheers, Carlo

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Hey Matt,

I have an update on this. I've found a few reliable sources stating categories should indeed be indexed, which I thought I'd share.

I also had a look at the SEOMoz blog (fair to say a good example of best practice) and noted that their category pages do not contain no-index tags.

Good article on WordPress best practices

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success

Previous question on the forums

http://www.seomoz.org/q/index-or-noindex-wordpress-categories

If you or anyone else have any comments I'd love to hear them!

Cheers,

Carlo

P.s. it's speculated that Facebook in particular devalues your Edgerank if you automate/schedule your posts using tools like HootSuite/Hubspot. Just something to keep in mind, test and measure.

This may be over the top, but Hubspot manage social media very well, as well as sporting a number of other marketing tools. They're a paid service but have a free trial. Maybe check out their site and see if it fits your needs. :^)

Thanks Matt, very helpful. I've set the tags/category pages to no longer be indexed, and submitted requests to GWT to remove the pages from search/cache.

After all, if the content can be accessed directly through search, there's very little point having the versions in tags/categories show up in search! :^)

C