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What are the conditions under which we should noindex blog categories?

I'm asking because I want to decided whether or not to noindex our categories. here.

Thanks EGOL. Yes, I've realized that I need to  have a strategy and to make a conscious decision to index or noindex. My category pages do pull in some SE traffic but I also have pages that compete directly with those category pages. In terms of content those specific pages (articles) are superior to the category pages too.

One other solution is what you did which is delete the category all together and use "hub" pages that link to all my other content.

I'm definitely going to do some reading and learning about this in the next couple weeks.

Exactly. This is what I did for one such page last week.

So do you think if I create enough of those type pages, it would be wise to no-index our category pages?

On another side note, I asked some of our members whether they would prefer to see "hub" pages or "category" pages linked in the sidebar menu... and they responded Category pages.