We host on Media Temple's Premium WordPress hosting (which I do not recommend, but that's another post for another place), and the techs there told me that it could be an issue with the robots.txt file:

"The issue may be with the settings in the robots.txt file. It looks fine to me but the "Crawl-delay" line might be causing issues. I understand. For the most part, crawlers tend to use robots.txt to determine how to crawl your site, so you may want to see if Moz requires some special settings in there to work correctly."

Ours is set to:

Crawl-delay: 1

I haven't tried changing these values yet in our file, but may experiment with this very soon. If I get results, I'll post back here as well as start a new forum thread.

Sorry to take so long to respond; I wanted to wait until the child pages had dropped out of the index, in case I had any follow up Q's. Everything's looking good so far, and it seems all the links to any individual views of child pages have now been removed.

BTW, great post on WP and SEO, Dan!

Thanks again!

I can indeed get cache for the child pages... (However, I'm using the free version of Screaming Frog, so I'm not seeing what I'm looking for there in the top 500 links)

The sitemap contains the only links (that I can see) to these child pages, so if I managed to change that, would that prevented them from being crawled? Or are search engine spiders going to "find" those pages because they were indexed previously, and I'll need to noindex them?

Thanks!

The pages in the tabs are being loaded into the parent page directly via PHP, so they are rendered directly into the HTML of the parent.

I'm sorry if there have been questions close to this before...

I've using WordPress less like a blogging platform and more like a CMS for years now... For content management purposes we organize a lot of content around Parent/Child page (and custom-post-type) relationships; the Child pages are included as tabbed content on the Parent page.

Should I be noindexing these child pages, since their content is already on the site, in full, on their Parent pages (ie. duplicate content)? Or does it not matter, since the crawlers may not go to all of the tabbed content? None of the pages have shown up in Moz's "High Priority Issues" as duplicate content but it still seems like I'm making the Parent pages suffer needlessly...

Anything obvious I'm not taking into consideration?

By the by, this is my first post here @ Moz, which I'm loving; this site and the forums are such a great resource! Anyways, thanks in advance!