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SEO and Wordpress duplicate content

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  • 03-09-2009 12:37pm
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    MOH
    Registered Users Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭


    I'm new to wordpress (and SEO!) and trying to minimise duplicate content on my blog.

    Obviously, my site.com/tag/tag1 and site.com/category/cat1 pages are going to list my posts with excerpts, which is going to give me duplicate content.

    I could exclude these from google using the All in One SEO plugin, or robots.txt

    But on the other hand, don't I benefit from google having indexed a URL with tag1 and category1 in it, assuming my tags and categories are keyword optimised?

    So it's a trade-off, just wondering which way to go. Maybe exclude categories but not tags?

    (My permalinks are in the form www.site.com/year/post-name)


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    #2
    blue4ever
    Registered Users Posts: 1,255 ✭✭✭blue4ever


    hola MOH

    Its a common problem where your post an be reached in a variety of avenues. But you can get plugins that will assist you. For evample youi can get a plugin that will no index the categories - have a look on the wordpress site under plugings lots there.

    If you want to PM me with any Q's I will endevour to answerer them.

    Cheers

    C


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    MOH
    Registered Users Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭MOH


    Thanks, I have a pluging which will prevent indexing the categories. I'm wondering should I - how much will I be penalised for duplicate content on my own site, versus the benefit I'll gain from more SEO-friendly URLs


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