Question regarding duplicate content in wordpress for SEO

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Hello WF,

Recently I created a site with 13 Unique articles. Also, I created 13 categories(1 for each article) and used 2-4 tags per article/post.

In total, I have 13 posts with 1 home.

But when I saw my site in Google, it has indexed 33 posts/pages of my site. Google has also indexed my category pages and tag URL's.

I know it will hurt my site SEO. then I installed "Platinum SEO" and turned on the options "Noindex for categories" and "Noindex for tags".

Now, the problem is that even after 10-12 days of installing platinum SEO, Google is still showing those indexed pages. I was expecting Google to delete all category and tag pages which Google has indexed. But its not the case.

Can anybody please clarify what to do? Or should I wait more.

Please solve my problem. I will highly appreciate it.
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  • Google keeps pages indexed for some time just in case they come back even if the crawler keeps getting a 404 error. It may take months for those pages to disappear. Simply don't add tags to your posts. I doubt adding nofollow attribute to category links will have much of an impact on SEO.
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    • I'm not sure it'd make much difference, but you can request page removal inside Google's Webmaster Tools.
  • You should request a page removal for the unnecessary page(s) at GWT (Google Webmaster Tools).
  • Thanks guys for your replies. I don't have any problem about the removal of pages. What I need to know is that after adding "platinum SEO" plugin and checking its option "Noindex for categories and tags"; will Google still see my content/posts as duplicate content?

    Or until Google remove those tag and category pages from indexing, it will continue to see it as duplicate content. Is it the case?

    By the way, I have removed all categories and tags from my site. Now, should I start creating backlinks on my site(considering that there is no duplicate content being seen by Google) or should I wait until Google remove those pages from its index.

    Please clarity this doubt.
  • If you've removed the category and tag pages then you've solved that problem - it just might take Google a little while to drop the pages from its index.

    There's no reason to wait to get on with building backlinks and doing other promotional work.
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    Bad idea to omit the category from the SERPs (edit the category template to show the_excerpt), but that's your choice.







    Sounds like you have a new site, create new quality links where the backlink page has a history of frequently being re-cached (Google cache date), create new pages on the site, or edit the existing pages on the site, to get Google bots back on your pages so they can find links to the pages you have now noindexed.
  • I agree with Yukon. Do not noindex the category pages.

    As long as your posts have the canonical tag in them, you will be fine. Not sure if Platinum SEO does that or not. I do not use it.
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    • Can you please tell me what is canonial tag and how to make sure that it is there in my posts? How to do it?

  • I don't understand why you want to get them de-indexed. A lot of people try hard to get their site indexed. And I don;t know why you want to get them de-indexed. This is strange kind of SEO.
  • Hey,

    If you are using "noindex, nofollow" header tag, you should try to use robots.txt to disallow Google for indexing.

    These "noindex, nofollow" tags are for content not for URLs. So, if you want to deindex your URLs you must have to use robots.txt.

    Hope this one will be useful for you.
  • It isn't going to hurt your seo at all, and it is not seen as duplicate content. Google can differentiate that is a category page. Most content owners have them, especially the top rankers. It can even rank in the serps if you want. Same goes for the tags page.
  • you could do as suggested or just wait and don't stress too much
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