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Wordpress Platinum SEO site structure/indexing question

by premiumonlinewriting
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Hi all,

I have a relatively new site, www.travel-insurance-compare.net, which I've been working on a bit over the last couple of months. This is the first authority style site I've built using Wordpress - previously I've done mini (ie one keyword) Wordpress sites and authority sites on other platforms.

Anyway, a couple of weeks ago it seemed to me the site wasn't performing as well traffic wise as it should have been given the content and links. After a bit of head scratching, I realized it was because I hadn't set up Platinum SEO properly and I was losing link juice to category pages, tag pages, archives, etc.

Now, I fixed that all up and checked all the appropriate nofollow/noindex boxes in the Platinum SEO set up a few days ago.

I'm still seeing a lot of /category/ pages indexed, and I'm worried about duplicate content issues as a result. Is there anything I can do to hurry up Google deindexing those category pages? Once they're deindexed (and I then only have one page indexed for each keyword I'm targeting, rather than two) I imagine that will solve most of my problems - or will there be long term damage even after the category pages are dropped from the index?

Any advice would be appreciated.
#platinum #question #seo #site #structure or indexing #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author linkvana
    Google sometimes takes up to a few weeks to properly crawl your updated pages.

    However there is a way to manually remove the cached version of these pages from their index, which sounds like exactly what you need.

    You can check out that here: Remove the cached version of a page - Webmaster Tools Help

    As for your question on the long term damage, there shouldn't be any long term damage in the SERP's. I have seen many sites penalized for various CMS issues and they all bounced back to top rankings once the CMS issues were sorted out.

    Best advice I can give in the mean time is to be patient and let Google sort itself out. Whatever you do, don't stop building links. That won't look natural at all.

    Good luck and keep us posted on your progress!
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    • Profile picture of the author premiumonlinewriting
      Awesome, thanks, that's exactly what I need. Yeah, I figured apart from that I just let Google do it's thing and reindex everything, and keep up the link building. Good to know there's a way to manually remove cached pages though. Thanks again.
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