When we talk about Wordpress, first thing which comes in our mind is SEO friendly and it is very true when we compare wordpress with blogspot. But if you install wordpress and think now you have a big SEO giant with you, you are wrong. There are so many things which you need to learn, understand and implement to make your blog search engine friendly.
When it comes to SEO of a blog, major issue is post duplication, Post duplication is nothing but when same post in being indexed in Google with 2-3 Different URL’s.
There are many reasons for post duplication issue like , You keeping your category /tag/feeds as do-index and bingo!(Sarcasm) . Now you have same posts in Google search engine with two different URL.
What’s problem with Post duplication?
One of the major issue is Google will find it hard for which page , he needs to rank you. If same page is indexed with 2-3 different URL’s . You might not rank for Direct URL but can be ranking for indirect URL. This will be a big problem for you and your blog page rank.
There are many ways to avoid these post duplication issue, but for now. I will be discussing on Post duplication issue with comment form of Wordpress.
How to Find your Wordpress Blog have Post comment duplication issue ?
Simple way is to search Google for Following link and replace yoursite.com with your blog domain name
[site:yoursite.com inurl:comment-page-1]
I search for some major websites and found bug in one of my friend blog.
How to prevent Wordpress post duplication Problem Via comments?
In my 8 Essential Settings after installing wordpress post I have mentioned about Wordpress Break comment features. Which is under Settings > Discussion.
Simple solution is Uncheck the option which says Break comment into pages.
This will work only for themes which are compatible with wordpress 2.7 .
If you still have that option checked, make sure you uncheck it.
I hope this post will be useful for those who are suffering from Post duplication issues with wordpress comments.
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Well that is wonderful tip. Thanks harsh
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Thanks for your comment DigiMantra.
I had a look and mine returned 2 posts. These posts were still when I had my old permalink structure which included the year and month. I also double checked and the box is not checked for breaking up comments. Thanks God for that
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George its good that you are not breaking up your comments and if its only one or two posts in search index, it will not create any or much problem. Cheers!
Wouldn’t this make the post loading time very long though if you have lots of comments on a post?
I’m still wondering whether the duplicate content is really an issue or whether it’s no longer applicable nowadays
You are right Michael, This will increase the page load time by some milliseconds or few seconds. I think there is also one plugin for the same in case if you want to break your comments in page format. Though instead of adding one plugin I will prefer using the simple wordpress feature and let all the comments flow on the same post.
Ah alright, thanks for your insight, Harsh
Will check mine. Thanks for this lovely post Harsh
Thanks for your comment.
This is another enlightening post. Thanks for the great tip!
Going to uncheck it now…btw nice found man!.
Hey harsh i found this problem with my blog…though i’ve unchecked that checkbox i just want to know how long this problem is going to stay in google. I mean will it be rectified on next crawl from google??
You can make changes in your robots.txt to make it noindex..
Ok ..i will go for this solution.
Post duplication is the issue which is worrying me, I am concentraing on SEO for my blog and want to be more cautious.. Thanks for the tips mate..