Blog post summary pages

[PeterM22]

I'm wondering post-panda if its wise to block access to blog post summary pages like this one:

http://www.howtotradestocks.org/blog/page/15/

Any thoughts?

[PeterM22]

oh that sounds like agood idea.. Did you find a scalable way to noindex them? Maybe a plugin?

[Devin_Anderson]

Hi Peter,

I was working on sorting out a similar query on a pair of wordpress sites a couple of months ago. I found that the best solution was not to block access to archive pages like this, but just to noindex them.

You want Google to be able to crawl your whole public site, but in the vast majority of cases you will only want them to index your main webpages and the blog posts themselves.