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Avoid Duplicated Content On WordPress Blogs
There are a lot WordPress bloggers out there. You are probably one of them, as you are reading this article. For bloggers, a good way to gain traffic is to get indexed in search engines. When you are just starting out in bloggers-land, there is a lot to do in writing, but in search engine optimizing as well.
In this article, a part of WordPress that isn’t fully search engine friendly gets discussed. I am talking about Category pages, Tag pages and Archive pages. Google is still punishing wordpress blogs for having the so-called duplicated content.
What is duplicated content?
I think it is pretty easy to guess. Bloggers publish their content online, which means it is freely available for anyone interested. That’s the great thing of the web. But unfortunately, when it is accessible for that many people, the change exists people steal your articles and publish it on their own weblog. You hate this, but you can not do anything about it. Good for us, Google will punish them for you and will give the blog a rank penalty. Or even delete them from the search results.
You have a good idea what duplicated content is about, right?
But, what does that has to do with me?
Everything. No, I don’t mean you steal stuff. The WordPress blogging platform you are using have apart pages for the archives, categories and tags. Usually, in any of those pages, an excerpt of the original article is given to give your reader a general impression what your article is about.
Great thing, make people interested in your articles! Keep your visitors as long on your websites are you could, but don’t forget about the search engines! They do not like duplicated content, right? So, why are we using the exact same texts in 4 different pages?
By default, WordPress doesn’t have the functionality to provide a solution for this problem. To make your blog as search engine friendly as possible, we have to solve this problem. Or we might get in trouble as people talking about this issue here.
We know the problem. What about the solution?
The solution is not that hard to find. We need to tell the search engines we don’t want certain parts of the weblog shouldn’t be indexed. Of course, we have some HTML codes available doing the job. Add the following line of codes between the <head></head> tags.
Make sure you only add this line to the pages you don’t want to get indexed. It isn’t a good thing to block the search engines from your complete weblog!
Do you think a plugin is better for you? The guys from SEOlogs.com have developed such plugin. This plugin is very simple, it adds the <meta> tag to the parts of the blog you don’t want to get indexed.
Today, you have greatly improved the search engine friendliness of your blog!
Hi Stefan,
Thanks for the great post. I couldnt agree more. There are also a lot of article directories now and freelance content writers that one can hire that are not as expensive to constantly feed fresh content to one’s website. Fresh and quality content is a great way to attract audience and get linked to without promising a link back in return.
I’ve heard if your blog has duplicated content, google puts you lower in the rankings, is this correct?
yep if u got the same content u well get low ranking in google so before publishing a web make sure nothing got a twins brother lol
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