Avoid duplicate content on Wordpress – How to ?

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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