Duplicate Contents in WordPress
What are the duplicate contents in self-hoted WordPress and how to solve and fix the problem
WordPress blogging platform has a built-in SEO friendly structure, it’s said. Indeed it has many good features and easy to use platform. But, SEO friendly CMS (content management system)? Wait for a moment. WordPress by default is NOT a SEO friendly blogging software since it has so many duplicate contents. Unless you deal with this internal duplicate contents properly, your self-hosted wordpress blog will never ever be a SEO friendly blog.
I. The list of duplicate contents in WordPress
- Categories
- Date based Archives
- Tag Archives
- Comment pages of posts (for WP version 2.7+)
- Comments RSS feeds
- All RSS Feeds
- Search result pages on the site.
- Sub pages
- Author Archives
- Author pages
- Author archives
To solve the duplicate contents problem, set all the duplicate contents alements above into NO INDEX. There are two options to NO-INDEX setting. (a) Using Platinum SEO Pack or All-in-One SEO Pack plugins (b) Setting it manually.
A. No-Index Duplicate Contents Using Plugins
Using plugins is recommended for easy to use command. Just install Platinum SEO Pack or All in One SEO Pack. And set all the above dupe content into NO INDEX. See screenshot below (I use Platinum SEO Pack)
B. Setting No Index to Duplicate Contents Manually
To set no-index manually into the duplicate contents, look at discussion in this thread.
A good post, mas Fatih. It’s suprising to know that WordPress is not an SEO-friendly CMS and that it has many duplicate contents. Although I’ve installed All in One SEO Plugin, I don’t even know whether this no index thing influences the performance of my blog. I’ll fix it now.
If the 11 elements of dupe contents above is not set to no-index, you’d have 11 identical/similar contents in the eyes of search engines. Google et.al don’t like it. you’ll get punished, or at least get supplemental result.
Don’t forget to enable the Canonical URL in SEO plugins.
Great Info, thank you
Nice info… Thanks
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