I learned this the hard way, a few weeks ago i had about 1400 indexed pages, it was always a bit odd because i knew i was blogging alot but not that much, so i started going through my serps for blueverse and i saw a ton of search queries, tags and categories within the serps with no unique description in the results, this is a really really bad thing to have in your serps if you are targeting for some tough keyword, since i was using All in one seo pack for wordpress i easily no followed all search queries, tags and categories.
This gave me a really good boost within the serps which is resulting in me ranking as follows:
Decreasing the number of non-unique pages from your serps gives more authority to your currently authoritative pages and boosts their rankings, although a few rankings up there still have to come up from the slump, the others are doing better then before.
April 6th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Hi
Great Tip. I too use All in One SEO Plugin For WordPress.
Thanks
Jameel Mukadam
April 12th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Hi,
Do you think this idea is valid for a normal website as well? i.e. to have less number of pages indexed (especially avoiding the tag pages)?
Abhishek
April 12th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Tag pages only take up useless space in your listings, they don't have any unique content of their own, they are just a search query.
Having only posts/pages indexed helps you gain better rankings on terms
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July 7th, 2011 at 10:46 pm
Great post! I happy to know that I am doing most of these, except optimizing the permalinks. I would also add including keywords in the title of your posts. It helps out tremendously. I read about SEO Services, and have found all of these tips to be very useful. The All-in-One-SEO pack is a must! I have seen my traffic double since I started using it.