Why I noindex tags in the All in One SEO settings. The All in One SEO WordPress plugin is a very popular plugin. Many install it so that they have the ability to customize their post’s page title. This is very useful to do from the SEO perspective. Your post title should be written for your reader and be catchy, your page title for your post should be more oriented towards keywords. But the plugin has other settings that require attention.
Out of the box the plugin configuration will noindex your category pages but not your tag pages. This isn’t necessarily what you want and I’ve had to fix a couple of blogs that had the default settings. What does noindex do? Noindex,follow tells the search engine spider to not place the page into it’s index (which feeds the search engine results pages) but to go ahead and crawl and follow any links on the page. Why on earth would you not want your category (and tags, archive pages) in the search engine’s index? To add insult to injury, the way people use tags makes it worse. Kathy Alice Share and Enjoy. SEO Marketing & Search Engine Optimisation Blog by Tim Grice. 20 SEO Blogs to Watch in 2012 | Cyrus Shepard SEO. White Hat. Many of you may not have known this, but the first time I ever became publicly introduced to Moz and the SEO world in large number had nothing to do with introducing a new tactic or proving my merits as an SEO, but rather my particular position on the growing debate about ethics and Search Engine Optimization.
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