Wordpress duplicate pages

[bhanu2217]

I am using Wordpress

and getting duplicate content Crawler error for following two pages

http://edustars.yourstory.in/tag/edupristine/

http://edustars.yourstory.in/tag/education-startups/

These two are tags which take you to the same page.

All the other tags/categories which take you to the same page or have same title are also throwing errors, how do i fix it?

[bhanu2217]

Thank You

[KaneJamison]

Hi Bhanu,

Domisol is correct. NoFollow is talked about more frequently, but I'm referring to what is called NoIndex. Using NoIndex tells Google not to show that page in the search results. In contrast, NoFollow tells Google not to pass value through all or some of the links on a page.

I also agree with Domisol that NoFollow should not be used along with NoIndex in this situation. Allowing the link value to flow freely throughout the site and selectively choosing to remove the tag pages is a better solution. Doing this will help index more pages with more obscure tags, too.

To NoIndex your tag pages, go to the Indexation page under the SEO options. Under Indexation Rules, select "Subpages of Archives and taxonomies," "Tag Archives," and "Date-based Archives." If you're not doing anything special with the Author pages or only have one author, go ahead and select that, too. I would prefer to see you add unique content to the Category page before you NoIndex it, but that one could arguably go both ways.

[DoMiSoL]

Hi Bhamu,

we are not talking about no follow here. We are talking about no index.

So you should set to no index all archive pages of Wordpress, meaning categories, author and tags, basically all the pages that are collections of other pages (or posts).

Setting those archive pages to no follow would be a mistake, because you'd miss the link juice propagation to all the pages of your site.

Hope it helps,

DoMiSol

[bhanu2217]

Yes i am using Yoast's SEO Plugin.

Can you please suggest what all should be set to no follow other then tag?

[MoosaHemani]

I agree with Kane, Also, SEOmoz have the good guide regarding this http://www.seomoz.org/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success check this out and you will have a clear idea of what to do when you stuck with this situation.

[KaneJamison]

You're getting the error because, in essence, those pages are identical.

You should set your tag pages to noindex. It looks like you already have Yoast's SEO plugin installed - go into the settings and you should find it as an option.

That may or may not make the SEOMoz campaign errors go away, but it fixes the issue from an SEO perspective.