Comments on: WordPress 2.7 Comment pages -Duplicate content issue & solution

By: News from Google: Fix duplicate content issues using canonical tag across websites | Technoinspire Blog

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:05:55 +0000

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By: Houston search engine optimization

Houston search engine optimization — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:30:13 +0000

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By: james

james — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 01:28:35 +0000

its a new method.. the sounds look good…

By: Here in HP, a Highland Park, New Jersey blog » WordPress Links, Comments Issue

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:47:27 +0000

[...] a post with a possible solution: WordPress 2.7 Comments pages – Duplicate content issue and solution One of the first things I learned was you can go to WordPress > Discussion Area and uncheck the [...]

By: Coffee Talkee

Coffee Talkee — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:56:53 +0000

Thanks for this one. It have me a headache since yesterday and Mr G saw duplicate content because of comments. Previously I was in 2nd page then all of a sudden, BOOM! I was gone.

Thank you much!

By: Undappakru

Undappakru — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:55:51 +0000

Ah Rajesh. I run the site Mani here is talking about. And while I did not try out your plugin, I know about it and it just might have worked for me too.

Not just Dup Content, but also Messed up indexing. That’s Measles on top of Malaria there!

But the point is not that. Not only did WP2.7 give me dup content issues which showed up in Webmaster Tools, started indexing comment pages, screwed up blog indexing, delayed and then stopped post indexing. I ended up in a situation where I could not publish a single comment. Mind you, I am not talking about posts with 10 comments, I am saying, even if a post had only 1 comment, publishing it would screw up indexing. Don’t ask me why, ask Google / WP!

In fact, in theory, when you uncheck the pagination in Discussion settings, the earlier comment-page-1, -2, kind of URLs get 301 redirected back to the actual URL. So that means there should not have been any problem in indexing at all. However, there was. Despite doing that, every published comment instantly stopped Google’s indexing of actual post URLs.

Using the canonical tag plugin fixed the problem INSTANTLY.

Your solution too looks workable. That’s another approach to the issue. The two solutions don’t seem mutually exclusive.

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:01:33 +0000

Are you sure that pages will be indexed? and do you think yoast’s plugin sorted this comment-pagination out? i don’t think so…Infact the plugin adds canonical tags to only archives(day,month,year,etc.) and the it points to the same URL i.e. the year lin or month etc.

it doesn’t work at all in the way that google or other SEs will understand…

By: Mani Karthik

Mani Karthik — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:51:47 +0000

Technically, it sounds right Rajesh. But a nofollow imight just take things too far. Canonical tag is specifically built to “show the way” to the original page – always. The contents are still indexed from comments, which might/could give some traffic especially on high traffic websites.

I’d assume, we still want the pages indexed but want the bots to understand that the original story is “over there” and this (comments pages) are only a continuation of it.

But a noindex tag would sort the duplicate issue. But it is as good as deleting the comment pages.

Hope its clear.

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:16:28 +0000

oh…i didn’t mention that the option was added in my Platinum SEO plugin…

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:15:45 +0000

I am not sure why we need canonical tags when adding a meta noindex tag on duplicate content will suffice.

I have introduced this option to add noindex meta tag to comments pages of posts as soon as WP2.7 was released.