How to Noindex post tags in WordPress theme Responsive

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  richardspencerjones · Member · Mar 11, 2014 at 6:06 pm

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  How do I noindex post tags in the WordPress theme ‘Responsive’ ??

  There doesn’t seem to be an option for plugins such as Yoast or SEO Optimisation.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Mar 11, 2014 at 6:25 pm

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  You can’t and don’t need to. This is a multi-user blogging platform. Our blogs share a common architecture and we bloggers cannot access metadata nor can we install any plugins. http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/

  WordPress.com SEO is very good. If you had two identical sites, one hosted here and one self-hosted using that same plugin, the site hosted here would have better SEO than the self-hosted site. WordPress.com has huge SEO and you get the benefit of that by having your site as a “subdomain” here.
  http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/seo-and-your-blog/

  To verify blog ownership of a WordPress.com blog with the major search engines you must use this process > http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
  Note: Even if you do not verify the blog the content will be indexed by search engines so don’t feel panicky about this please.

  Note also that WordPress.com automatically supplies sitemaps for our blogs to search engines – we do nothing. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/#xml-sitemaps-for-search-engines

  There is no FTP access and no blogger installed plugin capability on any free hosted WordPress.com blogs.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/

  See here for a full comparison WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org
  http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  There is no upgrade you can purchase here that provides FTP access and the ability to install plugins and or any third party themes.
  If you want FTP access and to install plugins or third party themes into a site then you will have to hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/ and set up your own WordPress.org install.

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  richardspencerjones · Member · Mar 11, 2014 at 7:09 pm

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  Thank you for your quick response.

  Sorry to sound dumb but I just wanted to clarify, I am a member of Moz SEO site. It has identified the tags and subsequent duplicate pages as a negative SEO factor. This is specific to my site. This makes me believe that although you provide site maps to search engines this is a problem I need to resolve.

  You say I can get plugins if I host my account on WordPress.Org but that they don’t have such good SEO optimisation generally.

  Is this correct ? This means I have to make a decision about what would be the best option. Is there nothing I can do to keep my site on WordPress.com but remove the duplicate pages ?

  Again, sorry for the stupid and repeat question.

  Thanks

  Richard

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  timethief · Member · Mar 11, 2014 at 7:36 pm

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  I said:
  WordPress.com SEO is very good. If you had two identical sites, one hosted here and one self-hosted using that same plugin, the site hosted here would have better SEO than the self-hosted site. WordPress.com has huge SEO and you get the benefit of that by having your site as a “subdomain” here.

  SEO and Your Blog

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  timethief · Member · Mar 11, 2014 at 7:38 pm

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  Let me expand. All self hosted WordPress.org sites are stand alone islands. But all WordPress.com blogs are on .wordpress.com subdomains and the SEO here on the WordPress.com platform rocks!