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#1 Seth

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Posted 19 November 2011 - 05:30 AM

Hi All,

Got a quick question. In Wordpress the having a post under multiple categories creates a duplicate content issue. On one of my clients' sites we have to use multiple categories. The "Featured" category send the post to the front page. The second category is actually going to be the relevant category.

Is there a way to tell Google and the other search engines, like Bing, the canonical version so there is no dupe issues?

Please let me know.

-Seth

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Posted 20 November 2011 - 08:03 PM

There are ways to 'keep' your duplicate content for users but ensure there are no duplicate listings:-

1. Block the least important one using a Disallow command in Robots.txt
2. Ensure you have set the canonical to the page that matters. For example I have a client site built on WP. I have created a post which within WP I have then set to be the 'homepage'. This could have created a Duplicate Content problem because it would have created domain.com/article1/ and domain.com/ - all you have to do is ensure the rel=canonical is set to the preferred page.

Ideally you do both so that the duplicate never re-appears in the SERPs.

Hope this helps.