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Kane is correct here. Generally, you don't want to index tagged pages because you'll run into duplicate content issues in addition to providing useless pages that do not bring much value. In terms of user navigation, tagged pages can be convenient but not as a strategy to grow your site. Here's another example of a personal site that has the category page with a  "noindex" tag (http://www.onblastblog.com/blog/) and chose to remove tagged pages altogether. If unique content was written on that category page, only then can it be considered to be indexed. If you're using WordPress, the best plugin to organize your basic title & description data is Yoast. Biznit, since you wrote that message a couple years ago, I hope you haven't exploited tag pages by creating hundreds and indexing them.

An additional thought. In addition to the plugin Redirection, last week I also added platinum seo pack. Any chance either is causing the issue?

Thanks for the advice. There are roughly 7600 of these news excerpt page accessed from different areas of my site. A complete archive of news excerpts is accessed here: http://www.admissionsquest.com/~SchlPostedNews/index.cfm/DisplayMax/999999999 Additionally, school specific news excerpts are available from the various tabs on profiles that have connected school news RSS feeds. Here's an example of a profile & a linked excerpt: profile: http://www.admissionsquest.com/cfm_Public/pg_SchlInfo2.cfm/SchlID/842/School/The-Webb-School news excerpt: http://www.admissionsquest.com/cfm_Public/pg_SchlNewsItemDetail.cfm/SchlID/842/School/The-Webb-School/SchlNewsItemID/7764/Headline/Registration-and-Orientation-Day-Schedule In terms of them drawing traffic via search, they do. I see visitors accessing these pages via google, etc. on a regular basis. Based on what you see above, should I: 1. eliminate our excerpt page model and shift to simply displaying links to new items? Via this approach, clicking a link would take the visitor directly to the school's site. Right now, they have to visit the excerpt page before clicking the link to jump to my clients' sites. 2. add the tag  to keep them from indexing? 3.  or maintain the status quo? Thanks again for chiming in, everyone. I very much appreciate the feedback. I look forward to your responses.

Thanks for the feedback. Any advice on how to correct the issue? It displays as /~BoardingSchoolNotes/ on the root level. Do I need to 301 the first URL above to the 2nd? Seems odd.

Thanks, much appreciated!