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<p><a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/users/harry-wood/hovercard" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/harry-wood">@harry-wood</a> this is the best practise for this situation.</p>
<p>Right now, Google needs to figure out by itself whether to put the content of a blogpost into the search index and link to the index page or the details page. This is my initial issue above. Having google link to the index pages is always a bad idea. For example, the post will move away from whatever page google has it one after a while and google will link to the wrong page. It's also a problem of "duplicate content" where the ranking is not ideal, since Google has the same content on two pages.</p>
<p>This change will allow google to visit all index pages and follow the links on it; but only index the blogpost-details-pages.</p>
<p>I am not aware of any recommendations in the SEO community that suggest otherwise. (With the exception of manually crafted and SEO optimised index-pages for online shops and such.)</p>
<p>See also <a href="https://www.searchenginejournal.com/noindex-category-archive-pages/374867/" rel="nofollow">https://www.searchenginejournal.com/noindex-category-archive-pages/374867/</a> or <a href="https://yoast.com/which-pages-noindex-or-nofollow/" rel="nofollow">https://yoast.com/which-pages-noindex-or-nofollow/</a></p>

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