Should I disallow(robots.txt) archive/author pages with links already available on the front page? [on hold]
- by WPRookie82
I am working on a simple Wordpress blog where when an article is published, it appears on ALL these pages:
Homepage - Headline(clickable) + 3-line summary
Parent category page - Headline(clickable) + 3-line summary
Child category page - Headline(clickable) + 3-line summary
Author page - Headline(clickable)
sitemap.xml
I've been told that I should add all author pages to my robots.txt, under disallow, so as search engine bots do not spider /author/* since all links on these pages are available elsewhere.
Is this a good approach or maybe rel=nofollow is better, or maybe I shouldn't worry about this at all?