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Wordpress And Duplicate Content - Add Your Knowledge

by Jeannie Crabtree
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Just a disclaimer: I am still a student of learning and using wordpress, not an authority on it. As I have seen on some of my wordpress blogs, the problems in using wordpress is that it creates some duplicate content.

Many people coming here complain that their wordpress blog is not up in the search engines as it used to be. They are posting good content and doing all the right things, but their blog is sinking down in the serps, not rising.

It could be that this is a duplicate content problem, which once Google decides you have duplicate content, you may lose page one listings.

I would like to see this thread develop into

1. what a person does on their blog that makes it duplicate content and

2. what to do about wordpress duplicate content problems, such as what you can do with a robots text, and what to add to your header. Where to use "no follow", etc.

If it is good enough, it might be made a sticky and would continue to assist others.

Let's help each other out and learn some things as we go.

Thanks.

Jeannie
#add #content #duplicate #knowledge #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    Judging by your questions, you are probably getting
    a skewed view of the real world while reading stuff
    on the WF. It seems to attract a certain person who
    is more vocal.

    There is no reason to use nofollow, unless you allow
    links on a page you care about as far as leaking PR.

    You don't have to worry about duplicate content.
    That's a whole different matter than just making one
    page viewable by more than one url. Google is
    smart enough to choose one. No big deal.

    Most normal sites do not need a robots.txt file.

    Relax. Normal people have nothing to worry about.
    It's really the people who have a mindset to
    shmooze google.

    Also, rely on yourself to get targeted traffic.

    Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author Fallen_Angel
    social media used effectively delivers way more targeted traffic than google 1st page rankings everyday of week in today's world. Even google knows this and has branched into phones and now looking at other hardware.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeannie Crabtree
    @Paul, I have a few Amazon affiliate wordpress blogs. As I understand it, putting posts in more than one catagory, such as 52" ceiling fan and Hunter ceiling fan leads to duplicate content. Are you saying "no worries"?

    And yes, I put no follow on the Amazon affiliate links.
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    • Profile picture of the author WilliamBlah
      Originally Posted by Jeannie Crabtree View Post

      @Paul, I have a few Amazon affiliate wordpress blogs. As I understand it, putting posts in more than one catagory, such as 52" ceiling fan and Hunter ceiling fan leads to duplicate content. Are you saying "no worries"?
      I'd like to chime in with a second "No Worries". There is no way that Google will see a low number (<10) copies of the same piece of content on the same domain, and then penalise as duplicate content.

      You could see a sitewide penalty for duplicate content if the majority of the content on a site is copied from other sources, but not for much less than this.

      Wordpress is common enough and Google intelligent enough that this is (in my humble opinion) out of the question.

      Regards
      Will
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