My duplicate pages are mostly Tag pages...what are best practices?
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As I'm looking through my Moz Pro reports on Pages with Duplicate Content, almost all the results are from the automatically created "tag" pages from my blog.
I.e., takeflyte.com/flyte/tags/kickapps
Should I worry about this? Does it have a negative impact in my search visibility? Should I be using canonical tags on these pages (and if so, pointing them where if there's multiple pages that use the same tags?)
How would you recommend handling this issue?
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What we do is add explanatory content to the tag pages that are for key concepts for our website and link to them from a "glossary" page—people who are new to some of these terms can go there for definitions. We also link to the relevant glossary page in posts where the term comes up, helping to create good internal linking.
Other tag pages can be noindexed or just ignored—the Moz report is just for your reference.
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I think the best practice is to first ask yourself: Could this page be valuable / helpful to users?
If yes, I think it's worth optimizing it: changing the title tag, meta description, and adding some copy specific to that tag. This should solve your duplicate content issue, and make the page more likely to appear in search results.
If no, I agree with EspresSEO above, it would probably make the most sense to no-index these pages.
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Hi there,
As these pages are just lists of links, they are not particularly valuable to users. So you could simply just apply a meta no-index to the tag pages, which should solve your duplicate content warning.
thanks
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