Here's a little bit of the theory behind some of these settings:
Meta keywords are totally useless and there's no reason whatsoever to generate them. If you don't believe it you can run an easy test find a unique string of letters not indexed anywhere else. Put this only in your meta keyword tag (nowhere in the post) Do a small post and wait till it gets indexed, then search for your unique word/string of letters.
Noindex for categories? Frankly this depends on the structure of your blog and it's all about how you pass page rank. If you use keyword targeted categories that you show on the home page you may want to pass page rank from these to your posts.
Noindex for the rest? The theory is simple. Your pages only have so much page rank that page rank gets distributed to every link on your page that is a followed link dividing it as it goes. You're trying to preserve as much of that rank as possible for your posts/pages. The problem is to a search engine
www.myblog.com/tag/mykeyword/ is a different page than
www.myblog.com/category/mykeyword/ since your page rank is divided among all the links your diluting it by passing it to multiple pages with the exact same content.
Hope that helps. You might want to look up some of Aaron Wall's work on this for a more in depth explanation.
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Originally Posted by cap2031
Use Catagories for Meta keywords (unchecked) [Don't buy it?]
Une noindex for Catagories (checked) [Don't buy it]
Use noindex for archives (checked) [on I buy it]
Use no index for Tag Archives (unchecked) [dunno?]
Autogenerate Descriptions (checked) [ok I buy it]
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