My blog post for a specific keyword is in the 'omitted results'. Why might this be, and how to overcome it?

[Kulraj]

My website Homepage: http://kulraj.org

Here is the page I am working to rank for:** http://kulraj.org/2014/07/15/hedonic-treadmill/**

When I search specifically for 'kulraj hedonic treadmill' just to test it, the first result is this: kulraj.org_/tag/_hedonic-treadmill. It shows the shortened version of the article that is within the Tag page.

[I'm new to SEO and Moz, please keep in mind]

Moz has told me I have duplicate content, which is regarding my main Blog page and Tags page, which is true the content is duplicate.

However, the actual blog post itself is not displayed anywhere else on the website, or anywhere else on the web. Moz confirms this, and reports no duplicate content warning.

My questions, therefore, are:

1. How do I actually go about installing a rel canonical tag within a standard WordPress dashboard (I'm using Genesis Framework) - I'm finding great difficulty finding instructions on this anywhere on the web. I clearly need to fix the issue with Blog page and Tags Page.

2. Why would my blog post be omitted, and are there any suggestions I could implement to bring it into the main search results.

Other things I've noticed:

1. If I type this URL in: kulraj.org/hedonic-treadmill, it automatically redirects to http://kulraj.org/2014/07/15/hedonic-treadmill/

2. Inside Google Webmaster Tools it says: No new messages or recent critical issues.

3. Regarding the above, when I click 'Labs > author stats' within Webmaster Tools, it shows nil stats, so something there is not quite right either, even though Google+ Authorship is confirmed.

[EGOL]

In my opinion, kulraj.org/author/admin/ is essential because it is the main listing for your blog.

As the number of posts on your blog grows you might want to add categories back.  They can bring in a lot of traffic if the category names match a topic that people are searching for.  With a small number  of posts on your blog it is very easy to encounter duplicate content problems.  However, once you have a large number of posts then breaking them into a small number of category pages can become an important opportunity and a minimal duplicate content risk.

If you do that I would limit the number of words that are displayed for each post.  I would also carefully choose the categories to match what people are searching for.

I have a blog that does not have tags and does not have categories.  I do that to avoid duplicate content.  However, lots of my topics overlap and I have lots of linking from one blog post to another.  I also have some hand-built FAQ pages that link to my blog posts and other informative content.  These pages can bring in a lot of traffic.

[Kulraj]

Thank you very much for your kinds words - I'm glad you enjoyed the content, and I really appreciate the advice regarding duplicate content.

I've taken your advice and deleted all tags. I also deleted all categories. Visitors do not visit these pages so I cannot justify, at present, having them and creating unwanted duplicate content.

I am stuck, however, with this issue:

Removing the tags and categories removes 4 of those 7 search results.

But 3 remain:

1. kulraj.org [even though blog post text does not appear here]

2. kulraj.org/author/admin/

3. http://kulraj.org/2014/07/15/hedonic-treadmill/

My question, therefore, is:

1. Shall I concern over these three?

2. Is there a way to remove the 2nd type of link, as it seems as useless as tags/categories.

Thanks again.

[EGOL]

In my opinion, websites are similar to boats.... the heavier you load them the deeper they ride in the water and the more difficult it is to gain speed and control them.

I did this search and found the guy jumping with the briefcase and the top part of your article on seven different pages.  That is way too many in my opinion.

On my site, tag and archive do not exist.  Category continuation pages do exist but they are noindexed.  I threw these overboard a long time ago to lighten the load and now my ship floats higher, accelerates faster, steers easier and competes with greater strength.  I don't need those pages, my visitors don't need those pages and Google HATES them.

About your questions....

1. rel=canonical..... I would not use it.  If I delete the pages mentioned above I don't think that I will need it.

2. why the post is omitted?   The first four paragraphs of that post appears on seven pages of your site.  Google hates that.

BTW... I read that whole article and really enjoyed it.  It's not the type of reading that I normally do but it was very interesting, well-written and thought provoking.  Nice work.  Great content.