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Filed Under (Wordpress SEO) by Mani Karthik on 27-07-2007

Wordpress by default is search engine friendly - a little too much sometimes that there are lot of chances for duplicate content.
Your Archives page, Feed, Index page are all sources of duplicate content.

And duplicate content is a serious issue with Google, as it would throw the pages into the supplemental index -and that would affect your traffic. Oleg Ishenko writes a great article on how Wordpress creates duplicate content, and how you can avoid duplicate content from appearing in your wordpress blog.


He thinks - Adding ‘noindex, follow’ tags, Adding unique meta description, Using more tag and preventing spiders from crawling feeds and auxiliary pages, should do the trick !

I would add one more point to it - Avoid posting articles in more than one category. Labelling posts in more than one caetgory simply multiplies the duplicate content on each of those categories. And this is also user-friendly. :)

Salutes to the man - indeed a great article!

Here’s a Wordpress plugin that can cure content duplication on your blog It says that it adds the nofollow meta tags to the category pages. So that’s half-done.I personally think that you got to follow the other steps suggested by Oleg Ishenko above, to ensure that duplicate content doesn’t appear at all on your blog.

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  1. Hey Mani,
    Your site formatting does seem to have some problem. If you use small text size in your browser, it will screw up the formatting. Although I like the minimalist theme..this one does not really come across well. It maybe good for Adsense and SEO strategy, but it is not a good choice for the subject you write on….
    It is my opinion and may be completely off…

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  2. Thanks for the heads up Trakin.
    Much appreciated.
    Cheers!
    Mani

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  3. Thanks for the info Mani - definitely good information for those of us using Wordpress. I found you on Blogger’s Choice Awards where you are nominating for Best Education Blog, so I gave you a vote. It might also be a good idea to stick a brag badge on there to get some more votes. http://bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/20352

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  4. Thanks for the Idea Aaron. See the homepage :D
    Cheers!
    Mani

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  6. I am using wordpress blog and I am really worried that my blog is indexed in google but after submitting sitemap it does not index my other posts since 15 days
    Is it the problem of duplicate content?

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  7. Hi Mani,
    I tried some of this tips,How I can check the improvements further?

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