Comments on: Theories in Duplicate Content Penalties http://www.polepositionmarketing.com/emp/theories-in-duplicate-content-penalties/ Search Marketing Information to Render Your Competition Powerless! Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:24:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stoney deGeyter http://www.polepositionmarketing.com/emp/theories-in-duplicate-content-penalties/comment-page-1/#comment-134488 Stoney deGeyter Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:48:22 +0000 http://www.polepositionmarketing.com/emp/?p=1995#comment-134488 Hi Bill, You're right, putting your archive settings to show summaries is a good solution. I think that with blogs search engines have done pretty well at working around the duplication issues and going straight to the posts, but its always best not to make the search engines think. Hi Bill, You’re right, putting your archive settings to show summaries is a good solution. I think that with blogs search engines have done pretty well at working around the duplication issues and going straight to the posts, but its always best not to make the search engines think.

]]> By: Bill http://www.polepositionmarketing.com/emp/theories-in-duplicate-content-penalties/comment-page-1/#comment-134295 Bill Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:25:02 +0000 http://www.polepositionmarketing.com/emp/?p=1995#comment-134295 Wordpress is a major culprit for in-site duplication - post pages, category pages, date pages, tag pages and so on - and unless your template comes pre-prepped to deal with it you have to do some fiddly engineering in php to make it cool again. In fact, in the case of WP I'm not sure that SEO is even the biggest problem caused by duplication - it's worse having new readers find stuff on your site via the SERPS and then have to scroll through a cat page to see what they wanted to read. [Just so nobody's in suspense here, you can get plugins to fix this, though in my experience they're a bit iffy. Best way is to set all the archive pages to only show post summaries.] WordPress is a major culprit for in-site duplication – post pages, category pages, date pages, tag pages and so on – and unless your template comes pre-prepped to deal with it you have to do some fiddly engineering in php to make it cool again. In fact, in the case of WP I’m not sure that SEO is even the biggest problem caused by duplication – it’s worse having new readers find stuff on your site via the SERPS and then have to scroll through a cat page to see what they wanted to read.

[Just so nobody's in suspense here, you can get plugins to fix this, though in my experience they're a bit iffy. Best way is to set all the archive pages to only show post summaries.]

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