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Wordpress Onsite SEO/Navigation/Menus?

by Dennis Wilson
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Hi, I have been trying out a few different navagtion structures with wordpress in a bid to increase my rankings for certain pages.

Due to the various duplicate content issues with wordpress I find it more difficult to work out a good website structure than i have previously done on html websites

I run several wordpress websites using a static page for the homepage. I have installed the all in one seo plugin on some of my sites and tried a few different things but with no success. Here is an example

Example: I have a european hotel website with a category for 20 countries.In each category for example: German Hotels/English Hotels etc, there will then be several blogposts such as Hamburg Hotels or London Hotels.

On my wordpress hompage there is a category menu which links to the 20 categories. I have this set to noindex, follow to avoid dup content. I have done the same for archives etc

So if i want to rank for "London Hotels" or "Hamburg Hotels" shouldn't i have a direct link to them from my homepage? rather than have them buried within a category.

In the past using a html site I would have picked maybe 6 or 8 important pages and linked to them from the hompage. There would also be category links on the homepage which would lead to a page containing a menu of the pages within that category, where as in wordpress a category link leads to a duplicate content page.

I hope i'm making sense here. any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author clickbump
    Hi Dennis, the way I deal with this in CE2 is that I have a category called menu-top that I assign to posts that I want to appear in my top menu. If you are the least bit comfortable with PHP you could modify your theme to do the same.

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    • Profile picture of the author Dennis Wilson
      Thanks Clickbump. I tried that with one site but did not see any change in rankings for the 6 posts i picked. I also did the same thing on another site but placed the 6 links in the footer.

      I also set the category menu to dropdown so as to harness the power from the hompage to those 6 links. (dropdown menu in wordpress is not crawlable, right?). I then added a link to a html sitemap on the homepage to make sure that my categories and other posts were still crawlable.

      I'm doing a lot of trial and error experiments trying to crack the best structure.

      before anyone suggests it - I'm not looking for any miracles from onpage seo just moderate improvement on terms that are not particularly competitive.

      Originally Posted by clickbump View Post

      Hi Dennis, the way I deal with this in CE2 is that I have a category called menu-top that I assign to posts that I want to appear in my top menu. If you are the least bit comfortable with PHP you could modify your theme to do the same.

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      • Profile picture of the author Dennis Wilson
        Does anyone know how I can edit Wordpress Category Pages to just display the Post titles held within that category and none of the post content?

        I tried a few different manual edits and found this plugin - http...//wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-category-posts/ which has very little instructions. nothing working so far.

        please help if you can

        Thanks
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