Remove the meta links from your blog. Yes or no
 

Any reason why i should keep it there or not keep it there?

Thanks.

Go for it... tell us how it turns out.

meta tags are no use, they add no extra info to google that only needs a title and content to check out.

Go for what exactly?

I'm considering removing recent posts and archives as well.
It will only result in Google thinking it might be duplicate pages.

Good yes?

Come again?

I'm considering removing recent posts and archives as well.
It will only result in Google thinking it might be duplicate pages.

you can remove meta links they are useless/.

and regarding dup content, get a good robots.txt

also search for duplicate categories issue

make sure to do your meta keyword research.

Who the hell knows.
I have blogs are that are a goddamn SEO mess but they do very will with Google.
Other blogs that are supposedly very SEO solid, formatted "correctly" and Google hates them.

Why the hell would you do that? Anyone that says they are useless is clueless

Well, why don't you give me some more info instead?

You mean from the sidebar?

If there is a sufficient amount of text on the index page and it's just the headlines, you'll be fine.

Yes, and tags and breadcrumbs and a "related posts" plugin.

keep the title tag (is also a meta tag)

There is a plugin that generates the proper robots.txt

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/irobotstxt-seo/

Why not answer my question first? Why would you?

Grumpy old man.
Because i tend to put as little as possible on my site for the surfer to click on. Besides content and sponsors etc. You couldn't think of that yourself?

Yeah, I usually don't use those either. I use categories strictly for keyword purposes and create highly intricate, super pages which I generally link to on the sidebar. Then use this plugin to direct more traffic to the super pages.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...-post-or-page/

For same reason we took them down. Makes no sense to have recent posts and recent comments on an adult blog. You should rather have proper category setup and tag cloud.

Not all SEs are spiders..

Here's a couple random thoughts. Depending on the amount of posts you already have per page, you might be able to lower the number, which would increase the amount of pages on the blog which will increase the PR possibility. But don't go overboard and cut down to one post per page..
Also, for posts that you want to delete because of duplicate content, depending on how long it would take, rewriting the posts in your own words instead of using a rewriter or search/replace will make a difference because of non dup content and SEs like updated posts for SEO as much, maybe more in some cases, than a new post. :2 cents: