Comments on: 10 SEO Tips for Configuring a WordPress Blog

By: anuj@BLOGTIPS

anuj@BLOGTIPS — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 05:44:36 +0000

This is perhaps the most thoughtful, useful article of this type I’ve seen. It goes beyond a lot of the surface-level ideas I’ve seen repeated over and over in other places. Nicely said

By: Canonical SEO

Canonical SEO — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:40:02 +0000

If your theme supports custom excerpts (the snippet of text that appears on the home, category, archives, and tags pages with a “read more” type link) then the best solution IMO is to simply use custom excerpts to create a unique snippet for the post that appears on those pages. At least those pages will NOT contain text from the post. Yes, the same excerpt will still get indexed on 2 or more category pages, but ALL of the content on the post page remains unique. At least there will be no confusion about which copy of the text from the post itself is original since its text never appears elsewhere.

By: Canonical SEO

Canonical SEO — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:32:05 +0000

Hello Tara,

NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW, and NOARCHIVE are all independent of one another. I would definitely NOT use NOFOLLOW on those pages where I’m trying to avoid duplicate content. While I don’t want the duplicate content indexed (thus the NOINDEX in the meta robots), I DO want all outbound links on those pages followed. Adding NOFOLLOW to the meta robots on those archives and tags pages would cause the outbound links to be ignored which would be bad.

By: Tara Daniells

Tara Daniells — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:18:30 +0000

Sorry another question if you don’t mind.

I currently have posts in multiple categories, so clearly risk duplicate content issues. If I only NOINDEX categories where I have included as a second category, would this satisfy the engines.

eg a post is in categories Colours and Blue, so I noindex Blue to avoid duplicate content?

By: Tara Daniells

Tara Daniells — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:12:37 +0000

Where you recommend using NOINDEX, do you also recommend using nofollow or noarchive as well, or are they completely unrelated?

By: Doug 'the Hellraiser' Jackson

Doug 'the Hellraiser' Jackson — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:34:01 +0000

Thanks for the tips! I just implemented the NOINDEXing and am starting on my list of excerpts. Still trying to get a handle on how to categorise my posts so I’ll check out your theme pyramids article. Much appreciated.

By: Canonical SEO

Canonical SEO — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:05:03 +0000

I NOINDEX all tag pages for the same reason I NOINDEX all archives… because the same information already appears in the category section of the site.

By: jxl

jxl — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:20:37 +0000

If you only have one Tag per post, should be the same to NOINDEX the Category and allow indexing of the Tag correct?

Btw thanks for pointing out the Thesis theme, awesome!

By: Canonical SEO

Canonical SEO — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 01:29:35 +0000

Thanks Diane! I try.

By: Diane

Diane — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 23:45:31 +0000

You have a very clean writing style that precisely makes your point.