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WordPress Makes Duplicate Content Even Easier!

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WordPress 2.3 has tags built in, as it was one of the most requested features by users. The default kubrick theme and a lot of others now have a link underneath each post to the category the post was placed in and the tags appointed to the post. Like this:

Dupe content by WP

Combine that with WordPress's default date based archive, and you've got a problem... Mostly because most users will use tags that are similar to their categories, and will post like once a day, creating a post and a date based archive page for each post as well... It's easy to prevent that, but most people won't bother, creating dupe content hell. So today's wise lesson:

Pick one form of archives, and stick with it!

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About the author:
Joost de Valk is a Dutch SEO who works as Search Strategist at Onetomarket, a European online marketing agency. Among the clients whom he advises about search engine marketing are the airline KLM, one of the biggest Dutch publishers Wegener, and Amadeus, a leading ICT company in the travel industry.

In his spare time, Joost is a committer in the WebKit open source project, maintains css3.info, the best online resource about CSS3, blogs about SEO, WordPress and webdevelopment on his SEO blog and develops WordPress themes and plugins in his company AlthA Webdesign.
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