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Thanks Erica.

We're deindexing the tags pages for now and going to see what happens. If all goes well, we might deindex the category pages as well.

Thanks!

This is certainly what we've heard and it's good to hear of a real case where you went from indexing to noindexing. My bet is that we would have the same result, my hope is that we would have an increase over time, and my fear is that we'll have a decrease.

We do upgrade our blog twice a week and keep a pretty good spread across our categories and tags.

The hope is that we'll have the boost you mentioned, in long-tail and whatnot, but the fear is that it could hurt us (like Erica mentioned above).

Like Erica, we haven't seen any negativity, but we wonder if we're being affected without even knowing it and by setting them to noindex we could potentially get a boost. It's a dream, we just don't want the opposite to happen.

Looking for some advice on a duplicate content issue that we're having that definitely isn't unique to us.

See, we are allowing all our tag and category pages, as well as our blog pagination be indexed and followed, but Moz is detecting that all as duplicate content, which is obvious since it is the same content that is on our blog posts.

We've decided in the past to keep these pages the way they are as it hasn't seemed to hurt us specifically and we hoped it would help our overall ranking. We haven't seen positive or negative signals either way, just the warnings from Moz.

We are wondering if we should noindex these pages and if that could cause a positive change, but we're worried it might cause a big negative change as well.

Have you confronted this issue? What did you decide and what were the results?

Thanks in advance!

Thanks Erica.

We're deindexing the tags pages for now and going to see what happens. If all goes well, we might deindex the category pages as well.

Thanks!