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A Huge WP SEO Footprint you might have missed.

by Kevin Maguire
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Over the last few weeks I've seen a few threads here pop up about robots.txt, no-index tags on duplicate content etc...

But at the same time I have never really seen anyone discuss this obvious footprint a lot of people might be leaving for Google on their WP installations.

Do you build links to you no-index content?

/category/post/
/page/number/

etc...etc..

If your not doing this. Well your making it way too easy for anyone to see that you are building those links yourself. In fact you might as well give Google a call and tell them "smack me now honey I need the hurt badly".

Any page on your site that is accessible by humans and has content worth linking too, should be linked to. Regardless of its SEO value to you.

Look at it this way.

The person visiting your site has no clue about SEO, has no clue what no-index means, and has no clue about the SEO juice you gain from them making links to you.

A "natural" person just finds content they enjoyed reading, wants to share it, and links to it regardless of what the url reads or index status of the page. They can as easily link to a /category/post/ page as they can your homepage.

So do you link to your no-index pages?
Or are you running off to Senuke now to start?

Just to add. Disallow might stop a crawler. But your inbound links will expose the truth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM2VDkXPt0I#t=580
#footprint #huge #missed #seo
  • Profile picture of the author clean99
    But at the same time I don't think people would share those things anyways.
    The only thing that makes sense to build links to is a category page, people might share that ans still not too often.

    People usually share articles like posts and pages not random pages like that.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
      Originally Posted by Russerg View Post

      But at the same time I don't think people would share those things anyways.
      The only thing that makes sense to build links to is a category page, people might share that ans still not too often.

      People usually share articles like posts and pages not random pages like that.
      Maybe you dont understand what I'm trying to say.
      Example
      1. yourdomain/postA
      2. yourdomain/category/postA
      3. yourdomain/page/2

      Each of these pages have exactly the same content. The webmaster might have the good sense to no-index, block robots w.e,

      What makes
      1. yourdomain/postA
      more worthy or likey to be shared over the other 2 identical page?

      I'm hoping one of the others will show us some fancy rel-can or redirect tricks to avoid this obvious footprint to me.
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  • Profile picture of the author clean99
    oh now I see what you mean! So how do you purpose to links to those?

    would you suggest pointing lower quality links to those like social bookmarks and some web 2.0s? or go all out and point some private network links to those?

    IMO I think lower quality links would be fine because we build them not to rank but just not to leave any footprints
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