Minimizing Duplicate Content (Wordpress) One of the biggest SEO problems with WordPress blogs is that, whenever you create a blog post, WordPress automatically stores that post in several different locations on your site. This can lead to some serious duplicate content headaches. For example, a blog post is typically stored on the blogs front page for a week or so, while that same post also has its own dedicated page. After a while the post drops off the blogs front page as its replaced with fresher content, but a copy of the front page containing the post can hang around in the search engines cache for a long time. This means youve got the same content in two locations, at least as far as the search engines are concerned. Once more, the post is often stored in the blogs category, tag, author and monthly archives as well. This means you have identical content in at least four places (the blogs front page, the blog post itself, the category archive, and the monthly archive). Clearly, duplicate content can ensue and make it difficult for your pages to stay indexed. Keeping Your Wordpress Site Up To Date One thing that is strongly suggested is that you maintain your blog by keeping your plugins and your main Wordpress system up to date with the latest code releases. Wordpress and Plugin writers not only fix bugs, but they also patch security holes in their code frequently, so its essential that you keep your system up to date. Wordpress will give you notifications on the Dashboard when you need to update something, dont put these off as they could prevent someone from breaking into your server and altering your pages. If this happens, it can cause a lot of problems with search engines like Google. (Source) SEN News specialtywebdesigns
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 01:11:30 +0000
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