Comments on: WordPress Plugin: Nofollow Those Dupes (WordPress SEO Masterclass Continued)

By: Stop Dreaming Start Action

Stop Dreaming Start Action — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:59:07 +0000

Great post. By supporting RSS feed in your website, you are allowing other users to copy your content and public your content in their websites. As the result, your content is being duplicated. Everybody knows search engines donâ€™t like duplicated content.

By: Austin SEO Guy

Austin SEO Guy — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:59:23 +0000

Andy,

I read this about 6 months ago as a noob, and understood little. Now I get it.

But what is your opinion on whether it is better to…
1. nofollow WP dupes, or
2. use a robots.txt file to simply disallow indexing of archive pages?

By: David Dwight

David Dwight — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:31:25 +0000

Confused..

Hi Andy..

Please can you explain this.. I am no SEO whizkind and this is confusing me… according to the below every time I post I am duplicating the content 3 times? will I be penalized for this.. I notice your pages that are tagged are also shown twice..

Please can you tell me if this is good or bad..

this is my post page which is fine..

http://www.mydomain.com/category/page-title/

……………………………………..

2.
this is the page that the tag cloud links to

my page duplicated here?

http://www.mydomain.com/tag/page-title/

…………………………………………
3.

this is the category page.. my page is displayed here

http://www.mydomain.com/category/page-title/

………………………………………………….

this means my content is displayed 3 times doesn’t it?

Kindest regards David

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:42:05 +0000

This will work with any theme

By: Pet portrait artists

Pet portrait artists — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:36:53 +0000

Do I have to wait for SandCastle theme before I can make use of this plugin? Or is this OK for all themes I choose at WP?

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By: Josh Spaulding

Josh Spaulding — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:55:21 +0000

This sounds like a good plugin. I’ve been struggling to understand exactly how to correct the WP dupe content problem. I don’t exactly understand what this plugin does though.

Does it just add nofollows to the archives etc. or what? I would think that the archives and category pages are good for the crawling of a blog so in a way they are good and I wouldn’t want to block the bots from them. But, then again, is it going to hurt the blog having 3 or more URL’s with the exact same content…

By: gifts

gifts — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:32:33 +0000

This has proved to be an excellent tool. I am redesigning my personal web site with articles that should prove helpful to many of my clients since I can’t help everyone with everything that need to have done–too busy. I have found in the past that it’s very difficult to keep Google out of the picture on certain items and to keep it from duplicating and then deleting links and pretending they’re spam just because they appear twice in the same web site. I’m fairly certain that it’s not the way I want to be remembered on Google or anywhere else. One of the things I do is write niche artcles for other clients occasionally. How do I keep google out of those? I have tried the no follow, but it doesn’t seem to keep Google from squeezing the very life out of the projects in my portfolio which is not helpful for my clients. Do I need to add each piece of my portfolio to my robot.txt file?

By: Matt Jones

Matt Jones — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:22:35 +0000

Hey Andy I use your plugin and I wrote a post about it as my first tip on ways to improve PageRank.

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