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Keeping duplicate content out of wordpress

by missmystery
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I read somewhere that wordpress generates unique URLS to the same content.
Is there any way to get rid of this/ top it doing it/Check if there are any dupes?

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#content #duplicate #keeping #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author missmystery
    No-one can help with this? I'm unsure where to find the content but I read that links to the same content are unique, hence duplicate content..
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  • Profile picture of the author missmystery
    None of the plugins seem to do anything. I'm really lost.

    If I search google for site:aspergersgirl.com/blog - I get a bunch of pages with the same content indexed more than once!

    I have no idea where to even start.

    I got all in one SEO and made it no index for categories, tags and achieves, is that enough? How long does it take to work?
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    • Profile picture of the author traeth
      The first thing I would do is go in and make sure you take off all the links to wordpress. You have a meta box on the right side go into widgets and make sure you pull it out you don't need that stuff there. It may remove it after you have taken the links for wordpress out.

      Next make sure you are not using tags, and set up categories for your posts but remember to only chose one category for each of your posts don't put them in multiple categories or you will have duplicate content.

      I don't see it on your blog but make sure that there is no archive box on your site you can check this by going into widgets and making sure it is not showing in any of your sidebars.

      I think you are using a paid theme, but you might also consider a free theme called FlexSqueeze lite. It is easy to use, give you good control over how you want to set your site up and is user friendly.

      You will have some duplicate content on your site no matter what you do, unless you are really good with code, which I am not so I deal with the little bit of duplicate that shows up.

      Hope this helps. Wish you well with your site.

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  • Profile picture of the author AnniePot
    Originally Posted by missmystery View Post

    I read somewhere that wordpress generates unique URLS to the same content.
    Is there any way to get rid of this/ top it doing it/Check if there are any dupes?

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    Yes, duplicate content within a WordPress blog can be an issue. It's usually the fault of the theme writers, rather than the WordPress programming itself. Here are links to some decent information for you: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...t-penalty.html

    Fixing WordPress Infinite Duplicate Content Issue for Better SEO
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    • Profile picture of the author chumpschimps
      Some themes have the option not to index category arhices, archives, tag archives and author archives.

      I think that would solve your issue.

      I use paid themes which allow you to do this easily, but I don't know of any free themes that do, although I'm sure you could do it by changing the coding.
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  • Profile picture of the author everydayreviews
    im getting a little worried about this. how do i know if my site has duplicate content?
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      The reason no one is jumping to answer is twofold:

      1. You are misinterpreting what "duplicate content" means. You are basing your question on that wrong interpretation. The old Googla "dupolicate content penalty" was aimed at sites which were creating more pages ON the sites by replicating pages. IN OTHER WORDS, on page on a site might have 3 paragraphs of text.....and the site owner wanted his site to look 'bigger' so he would create 10 new pages and put the SAME 3 paragraphs on every page. That was a penalty from years ago when peole used to do that trick.

      2. This question has been answered here in FULL detail dozens of times. Using the search function here - advanced search - look for keyword

      duplicate content

      and you would find every bit of into on what duplicate content is....and isn't....

      kay


      P.S. Not a good practice to bump your post if are no answers. Give it time or, better yet, use the search.
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      • Profile picture of the author missmystery
        Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

        The reason no one is jumping to answer is twofold:

        1. You are misinterpreting what "duplicate content" means. You are basing your question on that wrong interpretation. The old Googla "dupolicate content penalty" was aimed at sites which were creating more pages ON the sites by replicating pages. IN OTHER WORDS, on page on a site might have 3 paragraphs of text.....and the site owner wanted his site to look 'bigger' so he would create 10 new pages and put the SAME 3 paragraphs on every page. That was a penalty from years ago when peole used to do that trick.

        2. This question has been answered here in FULL detail dozens of times. Using the search function here - advanced search - look for keyword

        duplicate content

        and you would find every bit of into on what duplicate content is....and isn't....

        kay


        P.S. Not a good practice to bump your post if are no answers. Give it time or, better yet, use the search.

        Firstly, I've searched about 3 times for threads that answer this question. If I had found one, I would not have bumped the thread. Secondly, If I see it correctly, wordpress is creating the same content on different URLS for some reason.

        Thanks to those who provided help. I have a plugin (all in one seo) which says you can go no follow on archives and tags.. but searched my site in google and it doesn't seem to be doing anything or de-indexing the dupes (how long does it usually take? Or does the plugin only do it with posts that were posted after the plugins installation?)
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      • Profile picture of the author crystaljmhc
        Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

        The reason no one is jumping to answer is twofold:

        1. You are misinterpreting what "duplicate content" means. You are basing your question on that wrong interpretation. The old Googla "dupolicate content penalty" was aimed at sites which were creating more pages ON the sites by replicating pages. IN OTHER WORDS, on page on a site might have 3 paragraphs of text.....and the site owner wanted his site to look 'bigger' so he would create 10 new pages and put the SAME 3 paragraphs on every page. That was a penalty from years ago when peole used to do that trick.

        2. This question has been answered here in FULL detail dozens of times. Using the search function here - advanced search - look for keyword

        duplicate content

        and you would find every bit of into on what duplicate content is....and isn't....

        kay


        P.S. Not a good practice to bump your post if are no answers. Give it time or, better yet, use the search.
        Yes, if all the content goes to the same URL then it isn't duplicate content. If you had the same content at MULTIPLE URLs then it would be duplicate content. Also, if its all the same site, then google is smart enough to figure that out.

        They are more looking for duplicate content at different domains
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    • Profile picture of the author lespritb
      Originally Posted by everydayreviews View Post

      im getting a little worried about this. how do i know if my site has duplicate content?
      You can check through copyscape. By the way you know most have you ever copy from any others or written by own @copy right.
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  • Profile picture of the author gosfos
    Plugins can be unreliable sometimes. Why not add a noindex to your robots.txt file for the tags. archives and so on pages? It would be quicker and google definitely respects robots.txt.
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    • Profile picture of the author missmystery
      Originally Posted by gosfos View Post

      Plugins can be unreliable sometimes. Why not add a noindex to your robots.txt file for the tags. archives and so on pages? It would be quicker and google definitely respects robots.txt.

      Hmm may be a good idea. I'll have a search to see if I can find the correct coding for that - will feel better if I code it manually than rely on plugins
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