Duplicate Page Title for Wordpress

[MKaloud]

Hello,

We are using WP for our blog and keep getting Dup Page Title errors for our 12 author archives pages. The title of each page is the same, but I am wondering if this is WP issue with canonicalization working properly. The most recent four pages have a linking root domain and carry some Page Authority, but the older pages do not.

Is this what Rand was talking about in his Google+ whiteboard Friday talk about blog post relevancy not lasting as long as articles? Here's what it looks like.

Side question, is there a reason why the SEO Moz website doesn't have a Google+ button anywhere easy to find?

Thank you,

Michael

[blacey]

This was raised as a potential issue in another thread I was contributing in, and its better to follow, noindex category pages, paged > 1, and author archives to help avoid duplicate content issues.

It's better to build this functionality into the theme because if you suddenly decided to change the WordPress plugin from Yoast to something else then the new plugin may or may not provide a means of either canonicalising or noindexing the relevant pages.

I wrote an article about this here: http://www.laceytechsolutions.co.uk/blog/wordpress-development/avoiding-duplicate-content-in-wordpress/

I know plugins are persistent through theme changes and that is why they are popular with most users but for something like this hard coding seems to be the best way to go.

In my blog post I use the following code):

 1){
  echo '';
} ?>

';
} ?>

';
} ?>

This could be condensed as follows if you want to use all three:

1 || is_author() || is_trackback())
echo '';
} ?>

I hope this helps

For the record, for my blog SEO Moz is showing no errors and no warnings across the board.

[Aran_Smithson]

Hi,

I found this problem on my blog yesterday, dupe content found through tag, author and date archives.

Installed Yoast SEO for Wordpress plug in, its awesome and free.

http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/

Theres some guides on the canonical and dup content issues on the link above.

Enjoy

Aran

[SirMax]

I had a similar problem with tag, read more and categories reported as duplicates. I resolved it by installing Nofollow Home Internal Links plugin which made all the non essential links nofollow