Category Pages

Do you guys no-index your category pages? Is it viewed as duplicate content or is that just a myth? With google doing all this mega updates and shit, wouldn't the search engine be programmed to understand basic wordpress structure?

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Depends how you use them, If you can customize them in terms of adding custom title and meta tags then they are good to have.

Yes its duplicate content but google wont do a damn thing, all these PBN services that offer homepage links show the full article on the homepage and they are just fine.

A little dupe content wont hurt at all, think about all the link juice you will lose if you no-index your category pages.

DeadJoe said:

Do you guys no-index your category pages? Is it viewed as duplicate content or is that just a myth? With google doing all this mega updates and shit, wouldn't the search engine be programmed to understand basic wordpress structure?

Thanks

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HECK NO! Category pages rank very well at the moment for ecom stores. It is almost as if product category pages get a boost. Use rel=next/prev for the pagination. Make sure you include page number in the title and meta description for pages 2+ AND make sure you canonical all pages of a category to the first page URL. Categories are among my best ranking page types for me currently... I would never ever noindex them. That's crazy talk!