Wordpress Categories: Do You Use No Index With These?

A Bary · 10-27-2009, 12:57 PM

Hello Warriors

I have an issue with WP categories..

I got adviced many times to use keywords for the titles of categories, which means apparently that they should be adjusted to be indexed by SE

On the other hand, I have a concern about letting the SE index the categories, as I believe my posts will be now indexed twice, which leads to double content penalty.

What I mean is that:

If my individual post is indexed as www.myblog.com/mypost
But if my categories are indexed, now the same post will appear in the SE under another url: www.myblog.com/category/mypost

More worse, if I categorize the same post under 2 different categries, the post will have an additional third url:
www.myblog.com/category2/mypost

I think this will easily trigger the duplicate content SE police (the same content appears more than once on the same site)

Does anyone have ideas about this issue?

Currently, I set "All in One SEO" plugin to add a "no index" tag on my categories, but I wonder if this is correct, or may be I harm my own blog by this?

Help is really appreciated!

Thanks

Batal · 10-27-2009, 06:15 PM

hmm.. i think you should change your setting in "Permalinks" option

go to "custom" option, and fill this : %postname%.html

it will be like this -> "ht*tp://yourblog.com/example-posting.html"

this a simple link, but your blog is SEF (search engine friendly)

correct me if i wrong

-batal-

Intrepreneur · 10-27-2009, 06:23 PM

I noindex everything apart from pages and posts. This way I'm not unleashing any extra url's upon the search engines that will most likely never gain me any traffic anyway.

10-27-2009, 12:57 PM	#1
A Bary AKA as Goldmind123 :) War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 814 Thanks: 144 Thanked 134 Times in 100 Posts Contact Info	Wordpress Categories: Do You Use No Index With These? Hello Warriors I have an issue with WP categories.. I got adviced many times to use keywords for the titles of categories, which means apparently that they should be adjusted to be indexed by SE On the other hand, I have a concern about letting the SE index the categories, as I believe my posts will be now indexed twice, which leads to double content penalty. What I mean is that: If my individual post is indexed as www.myblog.com/mypost But if my categories are indexed, now the same post will appear in the SE under another url: www.myblog.com/category/mypost More worse, if I categorize the same post under 2 different categries, the post will have an additional third url: www.myblog.com/category2/mypost I think this will easily trigger the duplicate content SE police (the same content appears more than once on the same site) Does anyone have ideas about this issue? Currently, I set "All in One SEO" plugin to add a "no index" tag on my categories, but I wonder if this is correct, or may be I harm my own blog by this? Help is really appreciated! Thanks

10-27-2009, 06:15 PM	#2
Batal Warrior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 13 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Wordpress Categories: Do You Use No Index With These? hmm.. i think you should change your setting in "Permalinks" option go to "custom" option, and fill this : %postname%.html it will be like this -> "ht*tp://yourblog.com/example-posting.html" this a simple link, but your blog is SEF (search engine friendly) correct me if i wrong -batal-

10-27-2009, 06:23 PM	#3
Intrepreneur I.C.Hope War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Northern Ireland Posts: 2,515 Thanks: 446 Thanked 227 Times in 181 Posts Contact Info	Re: Wordpress Categories: Do You Use No Index With These? I noindex everything apart from pages and posts. This way I'm not unleashing any extra url's upon the search engines that will most likely never gain me any traffic anyway.