Meta Noindex Blog Tags and Author Pages

Hi Amanda, I don’t know if you’ve received messages with answers about questions. However, my answer on the first question would be as following. 1). My goal is not to have as many pages indexed as possible. My goal is to have only qualitative pages indexed. Qualitative as in pages that people search for and therefor I want to have it indexed. Having pages indexed that do not attract search visitors only means that I’m spilling crawling budget and link juice. Particularly in our situation this is the case, since we have 3 types of listing templates (for events, news and blogs/whitepapers etc) which each create their own author pages. Not all authors attract visitors from search but they could be having an author page because they host an event, another author page because they wrote a blog and another because of a newsitem concerning their product/service. Preferably I would like to have just one author page (although having several listing pages), and decide per author page if it should be indexed or not. Please reach out if you have some questions about my answers. Best, Esther