Blogs and Duplicate Content in Google

[NobleSavage]

I use a varation of that:

<?php if( is_home() | is_single() | is_page() ){

if ( $paged < 2) { 

echo '<meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />';
} else {
echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />';
}} else {
echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />';
}?>

If it helps - I don't know.

[twn]

I wouldn't worry too much about duplicate content, i have a vbulletin board just like this board which has duplicate content virtually everywhere. From the archive to the single forum post view. When google couldn't detect good and bad duplicate content it would ban all vbulletin boards. But it seems it doesn't so google must be quite smart.

[walrus]

Here are a couple different articles on duplicate content proofing your WP blog.

I like this method (no plug-in) but this article links to a WP plug-in which others may like.

[Darrell]

I just use a robots.txt to tell the SE's not to index the category and archive pages so just the post pages get indexed. Seems to work fine for me.

[bDok]

Originally Posted by Darrell

I just use a robots.txt to tell the SE's not to index the category and archive pages so just the post pages get indexed. Seems to work fine for me.

On my splog networks this is what I did and it really helped to drive the amount of indexed pages through the roof.

Cheers,
B

[Darrell]

Originally Posted by bDok
On my splog networks this is what I did and it really helped to drive the amount of indexed pages through the roof.

Now that's interesting as I had the same happen to me. My sites that have a robots.txt file get more pages indexed and they get indexed quicker than sites without one.