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!
