Wordpress Dupe Content Question

[jsherloc]

Ok, I just want to make sure that this is normal.

When I was checking on some of my new sites recently to see if they were indexed yet (site:www.mysite.com), I saw something interesting.

Basically I noticed that my main index page would come up as indexed (http://www.mysite.com), but then I clicked on supplemental results (see more results), another version of the same page shows up: (http://mysite.com). Since this is in the supplemental results, I am assuming that Google is just choosing the version of my site?

I just want to make sure this won't constitute any type of dupe content for these types/structures of sites I am doing? I know you can specificy which version you want to use, and I'm pretty sure I always choose the "www" version, but I'm not sure if there is any exact steps I can take to ensure that Google isn't essentially seeing two of the same page?

[Bruce Hearder]

The default Wordpress configuration generates a lot of duplicate content.

Not only do you have your original content as posts, but it appears on your :
- tag pages,
- archive pages as well as
- RSS feeds.

I put together a blog posts a couple of months ago on how to reduce your duplicate content in a wordpress blog.

You can check it out here:
http://www.websitesecrets101.com/is-...ven-knowing-it

Hope this helps

Bruce

[ShankerBakshi]

you must check it in webmaster tools, thats the finest way to check if google find any issue with your site regrding duplicate contents.

[ShankerBakshi]

For that you can use robot.txt file to direct google bots which are file and directories which you don't want to be index by google.

[JesseT]

If you have access to your htaccess file I would suggest googling how to do a redirect and do a 301 redirect from your non www to your www. Can do this in cpanel as well.

[Abledragon]

If you read the SEO guidelines in Google Webmaster's Tools you'll see that Google understands how blogs work and does not consider the same content on the same site to be duplicate content.

On WordPress there are at least 6 different ways you can access the same content on a site.

But this is the same content on the same site. And that is not duplicate content.

Duplicate content is the exact same content on different sites.

Most hosting providers by default ensure that there's a redirect between http://www.yoursite.com and http:/ rsite.com. If your hosting provider hasn't set that up then you make sure they do, and then you should ensure that in Webmaster's Tools you tell Google to accept both types of link.

Cheers,

Martin.

[bgmacaw]

This generally isn't a problem since Google's algorithm understands Wordpress sites quite well and filters content accordingly. It is understood that it's a legitimate function of the script and not an attempt to game search results.

However, there can be some advantage to creating canonical versions of your posts so that Google only displays the results you want in their results. You can do this by using the Platinum SEO plugin or other plugins that do the same thing. This can be done manually as well but why bark when you can get a free dog to do it for you?