Thread Starter
jbmaca
(@jbmaca)
Just to add to this, my homepage is paginated so I checked the box for
“Apply noindex to every second or later page on the home page?”
Hopefully this helps reduce the amount of duplicate content detected by Siteliner?
Also, I followed your tutorial on setting up the plugin so I noindexed the tag and author archives, but you didn’t advise to noindex the category archives. Seems like noindexing category archives would solve the category duplicate content issue I mentioned above?
Do you recommend I noindex category archives as well, or could that be detrimental to my SEO?
Hi there!
The worst thing that can happen with duplicated content is that Google chooses a more-pronounced and less-desired version of your webpage.
With more-pronounced I mean the page that’s linked most to, and with less-desired I mean a subsequent page. This is a non-issue, as the more-pronounced page is almost always the first page.
Duplicated content won’t cause penalization of your site; especially so for comments, as your page’s content is always displayed on top.
You can resolve this by telling Google not to index subsequent pages.
With that said, yes, that option works for all archive pages. There’s another option for the paginated homepage found on the SEO Settings page.
But, no, The SEO Framework doesn’t account for this on comment-pages, and that option won’t help in this regard (I just verified this). Moreover, I never considered this to be an issue, but I should work on that:
https://github.com/sybrew/the-seo-framework/issues/424
I also added a snippet on that GitHub issue which should enable the desired behavior for you 🙂
I hope this explains the lot! Cheers!
I missed your second inquiry (mismatch in my mail feed & you updating your reply afterward).
So, to answer your question about whether to apply noindex to all archive pages: This is up to you, as long as you don’t apply nofollow, you should be fine doing this.
I don’t recommend doing this for the categories in your industry, however, especially since you correctly label your posts and categories, and those archive pages look amazing!
Keep in mind that duplicated content is practically a non-issue; it’s a mere technical inconvenience.
Thread Starter
jbmaca
(@jbmaca)
Thank you so much Sybre! That’s very reassuring.
I won’t worry about it too much then. I’ll stick to what you advised in your setting up tutorial and keep these settings UNCHECKED:
“Apply noindex to every second or later page on the home page?”
“Apply NoIndex to Category Archives?”
Thank you!
