Context

Bing Webmaster Tools was raising a “There are too many pages with insufficient content” recommendation (severity: moderate) — 15 pages flagged, all of the same type:

• https://www.arleo.eu/en/tags/svg/
• https://www.arleo.eu/en/tags/sonarr/
• https://www.arleo.eu/en/categories/incidents/
• etc.

These are Hugo taxonomy pages — tag and category listing pages. They contain no article content of their own, just a list of links. From Bing’s perspective, that’s thin content.

Chosen strategy

Three options were available:

1. Block via robots.txt → discouraged: prevents crawling, hides internal links
2. Enrich taxonomy page content → too costly for a technical blog
3. noindex,follow → the right answer: tell robots not to index the page, but still follow links to articles

Option 3 is the correct call. The follow preserves internal linking — robots continue discovering articles through these pages.