Blogs and Duplicate Content in Google

Ms Naughty · 2007-04-10, 08:01 AM

I've been delving into the rather scary, complicated and insane world of SEO the last few days and it's been a bit of a roller coaster ride, to say the least.

One of the big things I've been looking at is duplicate content, because we all know it's something that Google hates.

Today I read that some people are concerned about the amount of duplication that occurs in Wordpress thanks to category, date and tag pages.

http://www.yellowhousehosting.com/re...googles-index/
http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3097706.htm

Various solutions were offered. One was to make sure index, cat and date pages were only partial so that only the posts themselves were unique.

Someone suggested putting this code in the header:

HTML Code:

<?php if(is_home() ¦¦ is_single() ¦¦ is_page()){
echo ‘<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">’;
} else {
echo ‘<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">’;
}?>

Another person talked about 301 redirects for pages.

And then someone else said: "I have heard Google handles wordpress out of the box with no problem. I can't speak from experience since all my blogs are small. Matt Cutts uses Wordpress. Search for the the character that Matt dressed up as last year. Matt seems to rank ok for that term."

What do the good bloggers here think about this?

2007-04-10, 08:01 AM	#1
Ms Naughty old enough to be Grandma Scrotum Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Australia Posts: 1,408	Blogs and Duplicate Content in Google I've been delving into the rather scary, complicated and insane world of SEO the last few days and it's been a bit of a roller coaster ride, to say the least. One of the big things I've been looking at is duplicate content, because we all know it's something that Google hates. Today I read that some people are concerned about the amount of duplication that occurs in Wordpress thanks to category, date and tag pages. http://www.yellowhousehosting.com/re...googles-index/ http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3097706.htm Various solutions were offered. One was to make sure index, cat and date pages were only partial so that only the posts themselves were unique. Someone suggested putting this code in the header: HTML Code: <?php if(is_home() ¦¦ is_single() ¦¦ is_page()){ echo ‘<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">’; } else { echo ‘<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">’; }?> Another person talked about 301 redirects for pages. And then someone else said: "I have heard Google handles wordpress out of the box with no problem. I can't speak from experience since all my blogs are small. Matt Cutts uses Wordpress. Search for the the character that Matt dressed up as last year. Matt seems to rank ok for that term." What do the good bloggers here think about this? __________________ Promote Bright Desire