Dear,

I would like to know how to fix dublicate content issue of a wordpress blog. All the blogs once set up have some issues like, different url directing same article. i,c
blog.wordpress.com/article1
blog.wordpress.com/tags/article1
blog.wordpress.com/category/article/article1

I am going through similar problem, i have blog technologyhope.com
I have category section and tags section.
I have however setup noindex for tag URL.

Is this correct approch or have i done some thing wrong?
Joey

I think you should check your post content by duplicate content checker tools than post in to your blog post.

Originally Posted by aradhaya

I think you should check your post content by duplicate content checker tools than post in to your blog post.

I do not have problem of content, but my own website URL pointing to same article with multiple URLS. This problem is common when you setup a wordpress blog on your domain.

I have placed nofollow for categories and tags and noticed some really small but still improvement in serps. So i suggest to do something like that as well. If you use wordpres then just install platinum seo and it will do the trick for you!

Originally Posted by who

I have placed nofollow for categories and tags and noticed some really small but still improvement in serps. So i suggest to do something like that as well. If you use wordpres then just install platinum seo and it will do the trick for you!

Well i have exactly done that, but i have just put tags on noindex, but kept category indexable and follow able for navigational pupose.

How about this?

Here is Google's Guide about the duplicate content issue:
http://www.google.com/support/webmas...y?answer=66359

I think its not a big problem for you. It's common for many websites which are using tags too. I don't think Google penalize your website because of having links to your articles in multiple places.

Hmmm sorry but Google does care about duplicate content... even within the same site. Otherwise they wouldn't care about URL canonicalization. They wouldn't have bothered to help create the <link rel="canonical"> element.

Much of your problem can be fixed by selecting a good theme. Themes that display the whole post on the home page, category pages, archives page, tags pages, etc. suck IMO from an SEO perspective. They create a lot of duplicate content on your site AND give other webmasters multiple places where they can link to your post.

Get a theme like Thesis from DIYThemes.com that supports custom excerpts. Don't even bother using the built in "read more" function because while it does reduce the amount of duplicate content on the site, it still allows the first XXX characters or words of the post to appear many places on your site.

By using custom excerpts, only placing a post in a single category, NOINDEXing all archives & tags pages... you can virtually eliminate ALL duplicate content on the site. Only the custom excerpt (which should be totally unique from anything in your post) is ever duplicated (between the home and category page) and only until the host rolls off the home page. Check out this post about SEO tips for configuring a WordPress blog for more ideas for dealing with duplicate content.

Hmmm sorry but Google does care about duplicate content.

No they don't
http://www.webmaster-talk.com/the-go...e-content.html

http://www.modtalk.co.uk/article/c-a...tent-the-myth/

http://videos.webpronews.com/2006/12...ogle-sitemaps/ 1:30 in

does your site is being penalized?I got a wordpress site that's being penalized because of duplicate and I can't do anything about because it been removed. In your case if the site is still up you can replace the content if its not being removed then re-index the pages but if its being removed you can do anything about it.

According to my proposal is to physically offer your best articles to the directories. Also the articles you submit be supposed to be unique and not previously on your blog or website as you can potentially obtain penalized for having duplicate content..