Disallow robots on a url effect?

[wickedsunny1]

Hello, I am using wordpress and on some of my top tag urls e.g : http://www.designzzz.com/tag/brushes/ there is an avg page rank of 4.

I was reading somewhere that my huge jump in not selected count in index status in GWT is becuase of tags/categories urls.

So i added disallow in my robots.txt for the url /tag

What sort of effect will it have on my tag urls rankings or PR ?

[NikolasNikolaou]

If your site is ranking "well", well enough for you I mean don't change anything if users are finding there way to what they want. Now for the noindex-follow tag that will not rank the certain pages in the serps but the links on the page will pass pagerank . For the nofollow-noindex or nofollow-index will just hurt the site rankings as they are average pagerank 4 cutting of the power of the posts in the certain category-tag pages not passing any link juice. The best thing to do is leave the pages as is. If the category-tag pages rank better than the posts then i would just noindex them leaving follow on the pages to pass juice towards the posts.

[wickedsunny1]

but the problem in my case is that for example tags like font, brushes. doesn't have there seperate categories. like font related posting goes under freebies categ and brushes related posts goes under photoshop category . Photoshop categories lots of types of postings like tutorials, downloads, brushes, actions etc.

What i am concerned right now is that if i noindex tag pages. how will they affect my pr and rnakings of these pages?

Or if i nofollow them in meta tag, how will that effect ?

[NikolasNikolaou]

The fix i did was to 301 redirect the tag pages to the similar category pages or content pages. This might not be the right thing for your site but I saw new rankings within a day or two. I think this might have lifted some kind of penalty and also siloed the pagerank of the tag pages towards the categories and articles giving them a boost in serps.