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Update on duplicate content

Wordpress creates duplicate content like crazy. Hundreds of new bloggers probably are scratching their head wondering what went wrong why google is not indexing their pages. That’s because wordpress creates duplicate contents when you sleep! So how do you get rid of it? Read this post to get an idea and add the following codes to your robot.txt file.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /goodstuff/
Disallow: /wp-content/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /*.pdf$
Disallow: /*.php$
Disallow: /*.js$
Disallow: /*.cgi$
Disallow: /*.xhtml$
Disallow: /*.php*
Disallow: /*.inc$
Disallow: /*.css$
Disallow: /*.txt$
Disallow: /*?*
Disallow: /wp-*
Disallow: */feed/
Disallow: */trackback/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /goodstuff/
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /*

Thanks to CarlOCab.com for the juice.

To prevent spiders from crawling feeds and auxiliary pages, insert the following code too,

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /feed
Disallow: /comments/feed
Disallow: /feed/$
Disallow: /*/feed/$
Disallow: /*/feed/rss/$
Disallow: /*/trackback/$
Disallow: /*/*/feed/$
Disallow: /*/*/feed/rss/$
Disallow: /*/*/trackback/$
Disallow: /*/*/*/feed/$
Disallow: /*/*/*/feed/rss/$
Disallow: /*/*/*/trackback/$

SEO searcher has better details on this.

Use of Header Tags

Title tags are the most important thing that search engines consider when they index the pages. Title tags help search engines to understand what you have on the post before it even reads the post. Stephan Spencer he has a must read post on this.

Probably you are not another techie. Don’t you worry, you don’t have to learn how to change your header tags right now because optimal title plugin makes it dead easy. Download the plugin and upload it to your plugins directory.

Domain Canonicalization

Except the difficult part of the pronunciation, domain canonicalization is basically domain redirection. I wrote about it on this post previously and suggested to place the code in your .htaccess file. But it didn’t work out with all of my domains and might not as well work with every of the domains. So here is a plugin which will do the job if you’re on wordpress.

Hope this floats your boat

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