Wordpress Categories: Do You Use No Index With These?

by A Bary
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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
#categories #follow #index #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Batal
    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-
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