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Thanks Peter!  Maybe I will give that a try.

Thanks Andrew!

I guess I will leave indexing as is for now (indexed categories, posts, and pages; noindexed archives).

The competitiveness of the keywords I'm interested in range from moderate to high. I should mention it is an adult-oriented site in a particular niche (outdoor nude photography).  I formerly ranked well in many of the keywords before Panda came out.  Over the course of a couple years I went from ~3500 daily visitors from Google to < 500 (analytics screenshot attached).  My objective is to generate enough affiliate sales to make a small profit, or at minimum break even with hosting costs - this is just a hobby for me, I have been running the site since ~1999.  I alt-text the photos. But most of the images are provided by the affiliates so maybe that is the real problem - too many other sites have the same images.  However I give them my own unique alt text and rename the image files to be more descriptive.

-Matt

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Hi everyone,

I have a wordpress blog that is heavy on photos but short on text - most of my posts consist of a photo linking to a full gallery, and a short description of 1-4 sentences.  I've often read recommendations to noindex category pages, but in this case I'm wondering if it might be best to noindex the individual posts instead - I'm concerned that the short posts might seem like thin content to Google compared to the category pages which aggregate the posts.  Also, some of my categories reflect keywords that I'd like to rank well for.  I have about a dozen categories and close to 1000 posts.