Paginated Home Page Duplicates on Wordpress Sites
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A number of my websites created on WP are displaying duplicate home pages with these types of urls.
http://www.example.com/page/10/
http://www.example.com/page/11/
http://www.example.com/page/12/
I found these duplicates using the site:search command. Basically, put in any number and the Home Page opens. With the above mentioned url structure. Any idea on why they are created, how they can be stopped and what kind of an impact they would have in terms of SEO and the penalty that comes with duplicate content.
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Again, the real question is why are these duplicates being created in the first place? Got any answer to that?
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Yea but the real question is why are these duplicate versions of the home page being created. Is it something that WP does by default or is there a specific setting that needs to be tweaked in order to stop this problem?
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Yoast is great as David Defoe says below.
The canonical HTML tag could be used to specify the proper canonical homepage URL.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html
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I have a similar forum question (I think) currently pending - but, my site isn't powered by Wordpress - and I stumbled upon the following while researching my issue. I've never used this plug-in but it seems like it would solve your issue.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-ultimate/
Specifically...
Meta Robot Tags Editor
- Add the tag to archives, comment feeds, the login page, and more.
- Set meta robots tags (index/noindex and follow/nofollow) for each individual post, page, category, tag, and post type archive on your blog. Also supports custom post types and custom taxonomies.
- Avoid duplicate content SEO issues with the recommended noindex settings (see built-in module documentation for details).
- Give instructions to search engine spiders if desired (
noodp,noydir, andnoarchive).
If this doesn't work, maybe google: duplicate pages wordpress? Or: duplicate pages wordpress blog archive. Or: duplicate pages wordpress categories. Etc...
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I've had these same issues. A lot of this can be solved with the Yoast WordPress SEO plug-in. Adjust your indexation settings and eliminate a lot of duplicate content.
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