Duplicate Content- Archives
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Our site is showing duplicate content for about 20 pages, they are all on the site as regular pages and in the "Archive" section. So the URL is different by one word but all the content is the same, is there a way to fix this and make it to where Google doesn't see it as duplicate content?
Thanks!
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It would be good if the original poster could return and confirm (or otherwise) that the site runs on WordPress. I am not sure that you can easily edit the archives pages headers to show the NOINDEX tag other than to edit the WordPress header.php file. The latter could get replaced when WordPress is updated. Certain themes make it easy to add your own custom tags through a configuration menu.
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As others have mentioned, the best solution would be to place a robots "NOINDEX" tag in the section of the page.
Some other resources that may help you to understand duplicate content and what to do about it:
http://moz.com/blog/duplicate-content-in-a-post-panda-world
http://moz.com/blog/duplicate-content-block-redirect-or-canonical
Hope this helps! Best of luck with your SEO.
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Sounds like a WordPress site. If so, a plugin such as WordPress SEO by Yoast would have the setting to be unchecked (Taxonomies and XML Sitemaps).
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Simplest way is usually to set the pages to NoIndex.
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