Wordpress And Duplicate Content

January 8, 2007 – 6:09 pm

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Wordpress gives off a ton of duplicate content in its’ default state. One thing you will definitely want to do is check your template and do these things first:

1) Cut any links to the “trackback” and “feed” pages, which will show up as dupes.
2) Add the following code to your header.php file:

if ((is_home() && ($paged < 2 )) || is_single() || is_page() || is_category()){ echo "“; } else { echo ““; } ?>

Don’t copy that code directly, as it is escaped for formatting. You can use this file to copy and paste from.

This will remove most of the sludge pages such as the categories, the index pages numbered greater than 2 and the redundant archive pages. These are the major sources of duplicate content using Wordpress, so this addition is a must.

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