You Got Duplicate Content!

January 25th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

Google isn’t indexing your Wordpress blog!

And it could all be because of the duplicate content problem. Wait. But you know you have unique content… right? Write the best articles all you want, but the default Wordpress coding structure tends to be un-search engine-friendly- quite like the Joomla core. Observe how the archives, categories, built in search, and menuing helps allow navigation, and yet feature little unique content at all. Fire up your blog. Check out the pages that bristle with duplicate excerpts of the complete posts in chronological order. There you go. There’s your duplicate - and it looks hideous to Google. These extra pages with stale content repeated incessantly weaken those unqiue pages on the site: the articles.

Fortunately, there’s a cure. I stumbled across a cool plugin at Seologs.com that provides a snap-on solution for you. Visit this generous download link and install the plugin. It’s as simple as ftping it into the plugin directory and activating it from the control panel.

The plugin works magic. What it does is to instruct the search engine spiders not to index pages with duplicate content by adding noindex meta tags. Headers are insinuated with conditional tags to check for page type, and adding the noindex tag when needed. Voila! No duplicate content.

Enjoy!

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  1. #1

    Comment by mlankton on 25 January 2008:

    2 other steps you can take to avoid duplicate content:

    Don’t be afraid to Disallow directories in .htmlaccess (example /archive, /category)

    Don’t just fire up a xml sitemap plugin without giving it some rules to follow

  2. #2

    Comment by mlankton on 25 January 2008:

    erm, I meant .htaccess :)

  3. #3

    Comment by Shashank on 25 January 2008:

    I use All in One SEO pack which i think is much better than any other plugin…it has a option for no-indexing archive and category pages

  4. #4

    Comment by Hummerbie on 25 January 2008:

    make sure you use the latest version of WordPress 2.3.x (you already use it here :-)) which takes care of a lot of these issues, and complete it with the robots plugin by Joost de Valk
    http://www.joostdevalk.nl/wordpress/meta-robots-wordpress-plugin/

    Works great, also in combination with All-in-one-SEO to make sure you metatag description and keywords are in order.

  5. #5

    Comment by bert on 26 January 2008:

    Yeah. not just the latest. Backup every week. Imagine a year of posts gone in a single SQL injection attack!

  6. #6

    Comment by Mark from Bloglyne on 28 January 2008:

    @Bert - Great advice about backing up. Thanks for the reminder, I’m off!

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