How to Avoid Duplicate Content with Wordpress
Duplicate content is bad m’kay.
Here is what Google say about duplicate content.
Google does not want to reward people with high rankings when they are simply regurgitating previously used content and spewing it out over their site. This is why simply copying and pasting content from others is a major no-no. Why would Google reward your for someone else’s work?
Reading what Google say about duplicate content you will also see that they mention within a site. Now, a lot of bloggers are using Wordpress as their platform and there are several duplicate content issues which can arise. With its default configuration Wordpress can cause several proglems.
Wordpress Duplicate Content Issues
The things which make Wordpress such a good content management system (CMS) are some the ways which cause duplicate content issues. To begin with Wordpress can organise your posts into category, date and tag archives. To avoid duplicate content we only want our post appearing in one place and that’s the www.domainname.com/post/ URL. If our post appears in a category, a date and a tag archive then it will be appearing in three places instead of just one. I recommend installing the All-in-One-SEO pack as at the tick of a box it can set no-index tags to your category, date and tag archives.
Now, Google is clever, very clever in fact so the chances are duplicate content issues will not even arise if you don’t make these changes but there is no sure way of telling. Almost noone will be linking to your archive pages directly so they will have high rankings. No-indexing them is a safe way of avoid duplicate content penalties.
Wordpress already 301 permanent redirect the www. to the non-www. to get rid of any issues there.
The truth is Google may not penalise you but then again they may do so I think it’s best to be on the safe side.
What do you think?
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Basically ive got about 20 wordpress sites and I want to have a news page on each. But i don’t want to have to go to each one and update them all individually.
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