I wrote an SEO Tutorial some years ago (before using WP), the older search engine optimization tutorial is still very relevant, but like the rest of the world I moved on and now use WordPress as an SEO CMS. Hence this free WordPress SEO guide. WordPress SEO WordPress out the box (vanilla WordPress with no WordPress SEO plugins or WordPress SEO theme) is pretty good from an SEO perspective, WordPress is a really good base SEO CMS for building optimized websites. However, it is far from search engine optimized and it’s very easy to make on-page SEO mistakes within WordPress especially when using popular WordPress SEO plugins like Yoast WordPress SEO and All In One SEO Pack. All the popular […]
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WordPress CMS software
WordPress is one of the good CMS software. New web users try to first cms. because cms is easy user friendly.
WordPress SEO CMS
WordPress is a great CMS…that’s for sure. There is a ton of community support and the SEO it can employ is very effective. It doesn’t hurt any that Google especially loves blogs these days.
WordPress Duplicate Content Cure Plugin
Hey Dave.
What do you think of this plugin for ensuring the problem of duplicate content in a WordPress Blog is fixed? I installed it.
Author URI: seologs.com/wordpress-duplicate-content-cure/
Seems like it could be a good plugin for folks who want to use archives etc. (As long as it is configured to crawl the categories. In addition I put individual posts into one category.)
WordPress Duplicate Content Cure Plugin
WordPress Duplicate Content Plugin Review
The Duplicate Content WordPress Plugin is not a plugin I’d use. Was very concerned to read it originally blocked Category pages through noindex! I have loads of SERPs due to Category pages, so would never block the spidering/indexing of those!
There’s an issue with wasted links/PR using a plugin like this. Take the monthly archive pages, most themes by default have the monthly archive links on every page, this means with a 1,000 page WordPress blog we are looking at 12,000 links to monthly archive pages for every year of archives!
What a waste of link benefit for so little traffic!
This plugin doesn’t remove these links it stops the pages linked to (the archive pages) from being indexed making a waste of link benefit into a COMPLETE WASTE OF LINK BENEFIT with no traffic at all. That’s because Google doesn’t consider those 12,000 links as not existing anymore.
So I would never use a WordPress plugin like this, everything the plugin does and so much more can be achieved easily through theme coding.
If you use my themes as intended you will limit most duplicate content.
I advise not having a monthly archive section on the sidebar, but if you do the themes are setup to only show these links on the home pages. So with a 1,000 page site you only get them on the home page and the archived home pages (home page page 2, home page page 3 etc…) so http://www.elvincountry.com/ has 110 archived home pages and so there would be 110 pages linking to the monthly archive pages not over 1,000 (that site has about 1,000 posts, with the Categories probably 1,500 pages). As a side note Google tends not to index all these types of archive pages (no keyword focus, little traffic to them) so those 110 pages maybe 30 will be indexed. Better than all 1,000 pages linking to these practically useless monthly archive pages, but still not what I’d use my link power for. Don’t add the monthly archive widget to your sidebar.
You want Categories to be indexed as long as you don’t repeat the same content in all the Categories. Use your commonsense on this one, there’s little point having 20 Categories if they all use the same posts, you can see on this site there’s a small number of Categories because it makes sense. The travel site has about 70 Categories because that makes sense.
My themes out the box use excerpts on all archive like pages: home archives, monthly archives, Categories, Tags and Search result pages. This means you won’t run into problems with your single blog posts (the pages most SERPs should come to) being treated as duplicate content to your archive pages.
As long as you don’t add those monthly archive links on your sidebar you have everything you need to have a well SEO’d site with low risks of duplicate content caused by WordPress.
BTW the plugin editor forgot about the home page archives, because of the way WordPress works there’s no way to block the indexing of the archived home pages through the header.php file, so you still have all those archived pages spidered and indexed. There is a way to block these through your robots.txt file, but considering how little link benefit goes from the home page to home page 2 to home page 3….. Google tends not to index them all anyway, I see these pages as a kind of sitemap so happy for them to be spidered/indexed, Google and other search engines need at least one way to find your posts.
David Law
WordPress Duplicate Content Plugin Review
Wordpress SEO
Great simple explanation for WordPress SEO!
Very well put with some great points about WP!
I love it myself and use it on every website I do.
Wordpress SEO Themes and Plugins
After using and loving WP purely for blogging for my company blog, I was hesitant to use it as a CMS for my personal site.
That said, I’m slowly customizing it to work the way I want with a few plugins making the process a bit easier.
Where else can I find free themes and free plugins?
I’m a recent WP convert, and now I recommend it.
WordPress SEO and Google Rankings?
I often try WordPress SEO but never appear @google…
WordPress for SEO optimisation
Nice post…look forward to reading your ideas on how to set up wordpress for SEO optimisation!I have wordpress but need to figure out how to set it up properly. Not being at all IT minded this is a challenge!