Btw, have you heard about DupeMagic? It's a WordPress plugin for creating high quality unique content (not garbage). You can check the result using copyscape. If your site is not listed in the result, your page is unique.

You can read the review here :
http://internetmarketingtool.co.cc/seo-tools/du…

thanks,
Samuel

I purchased the gold version, not sure if that is still available for $100, as it was meant to be limited to only 100 users

Now I have moved servers I intend to start playing with it again. There is a negative aspect to it that it bulks out the database files for the cache, and moving WordPress and backups is enough of a pain without 100MB+ databases.

Also for some reason whilst the free plugin I was using was being indexed extensively by Google, when I switched, Google decided that it didn’t want to index the new ones (different URL structure) – that might be a problem in my own configuration.

I also didn’t manage to get a lot of the additional languages working correctly, but my new server has more IPs to play around with to proxy the requests which might have been the problem.

The translation is good enough to get search traffic, I wouldn’t class it as good enough to read easily, the same as if you were translating a foreign document with babelfish – it can be enough if you are used to that kind of translation.

Thanks

I get some great quality comments on this blog from lots of people, and I include yours among them, and thus I use the dofollow plugin to share a little linklove.

Most blogs also typically have sitewide blogroll links, top commentator plugins, text-link-ads etc, and it all adds up to lots of external links on every single page.

I would class myself as a devotee of the teachings of Michael Campbell and Leslie Rhode, but at the same time an active community blog is a whole different scenario to a mininet of carefully engineered niche sites.

I initially addressed this situation by coming to the conclusion that my best strategy would be 2fold

1. Minimise the amount of external leaks on duplicate content pages
2. Massive ball linking, ensuring I have far more internal links on every single page, than external links.

I wouldn’t class this as hording pagerank, but cultivating it. PR would still leak from your site through whatever external links you have, but the pages wouldn’t be penalized by multiple iterations of the pagerank calculation.

As a followup to this post, I went into this in more depth, and I think you will find my sandcastles approach might be ideal for a WordPress blog that is community friendly, but doesn’t wish to sacrifice itself.

http://andybeard.eu/2007/06/wordpress-seo-masterclass-for-competitive-niches.html

I would still come back to the question of tags which is an interesting one.

1. If you include tags and make dup content, what is the purpose.

2. Based on the above you could set up tag pages to be somewhat different from your normal pages.

3. Which pages would you prefer to be ranked? normal or tagged?

4. If you close off tag pages to collect PR, you will be wasting PR on dup content on which could be used on other new, unique pages… especially if your blog is dynamically linked (Leslie Rhodes)

Someone asked about minimizing PR, there are several ways…

1. You can put in place a java navigation menu, here is the one I’m using for wordpress – http://www.silpstream.com/blog/wp-dtree/

2. Call the sidebar as a page rather than from the wp script. I could find the article on that one but definitely sounds doable.

3. Make sure all your outgoing plugins, feed url’s have the nofollow tag. Some do require editing of the script.

4. Disallow in robots text all folders not wanting followed including wp-, category, archives, etc.

5. Loop your PR. Set up a sitemap on your index page only which goes to your invidual posts and back to your index page.

6. Minimize all outgoing links with nofollow unless paid links. Be carefull with creating an exact closed loop, the SE’s arent big on this so always have some outgoing links.

one edifying article you have there andy,
/name-of-the-post/ or /name-of-the-post.html there are just quite the same. As long as you dont use “?”,such characters. Permalinks helps the search engine crawl to your site faster, so if you have categorize your permalinks, there a good change the search engine would spiders your website.

I am not looking at the ranking for specific search results, other than my comment that they seem to have a problem with link attribution on syndicated content.