UK Expert SEO

Ugh ! my head hurts ! - but ive got a fix for the problem of duplicate content wordpress.

My test site is www.anorak.co.uk

As you may know, in a typical install for wordpress you assign stories to categories and if you have lots of stories, then you probably would set up subcategories for those stories. BUT the problem is that folder ‘maincategory’ will also show subcategory stories. = duplicate content.

So i’ve found a plugin HERE which only shows stories actually assigned to that particular story - so each category home page only shows stories from that category.

for example :
http://www.anorak.co.uk/reality-tv/ only shows reality TV stuff and no big brother stories
and http://www.anorak.co.uk/reality-tv/big-brother/ only shows big brother stories

I’ve also worked the anorak robots.txt file so I stop indexing of the RSS pages (im sure you have seen these around the place on searches) and im blocking the archive pages from the engines idea being i funnel them to category home pages

I’ve also manipulated the footer pagination, so the spiders will crawl deeper via the category pages as opposed to the index page - ive added a no follow there.

The strategy is to get the category home pages ranked along with the main index page - so its all about diverting the bots in the right way and overcoming the issues associated with link churn

My next task is to do a script which presents a static include on the category home pages, which does not repeat in the archive pages