WordPress SEO Duplicate Content
Today, I spend a lot of time researching the Internet on a couple SEO issues that sparked my interest. I am referring to having Duplicate Content in Search Engines. This is not a good thing as you can imagine, in fact, Google will penalize you for duplicate content. I got some advice from Jeff Hester and decided to implement two things on my WordPress blog that should help with SEO. First, I had to solve cononical issues (ie. www.techroam.com and techroam.com) and then I wanted to add the robots.txt file which I had to create because WordPress does not come with that file. By the way, when editing such files use PSPad instead of Windows Notepad.
So, to make sure that all traffic that goes to http://techroam.com is moved to http://www.techroam.com I added the following lines of code to my .htaccess file located in the root directory of my blog:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [L,R=301]
If you are running on Apache then this is the best way of doing 301 redirects. Don’t forget to change “yoursite” to the name of your site. Now, if you try to go to http://techroam.com you are sent to http://www.techroam.com
Next, I created a robots.txt file and put it the root directory of my blog. If you don’t have this file, create it. It makes no difference for Google or Yahoo, but other search engines really like to see it. If you want everything indexed by a search engine then just put this inside robots.txt:
User-agent: *
Disallow:
I also realized today that the Xfish Meta plugin was updated to Another Wordpress Meta Plugin and it fixes my issue with a blank description. If you used Xfish Meta, you should get the new plugin.
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i have find a plugin to avoid dc
here the link: http://seologs.com/duplicate-content-cure/
my robots.txt ->
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /feed
Disallow: /comments/feed
Disallow: /feed/$
Disallow: /*/feed/$
Disallow: /*/feed/rss/$
Disallow: /*/trackback/$
Disallow: /*/*/feed/$
Disallow: /*/*/feed/rss/$
Disallow: /*/*/trackback/$
Disallow: /*/*/*/feed/$
Disallow: /*/*/*/feed/rss/$
Disallow: /*/*/*/trackback/$
I’ve heard about google penalizing people for duplicate content and for doing to much work on brand new sites… That’s tough
Great stuff!