Comments on: Eliminating duplicate WordPress content in Google

By: BoringClassGames

BoringClassGames — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:13:47 +0000

Is there any plugins that do this? lol. I am not good at codes.

By: Maria

Maria — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:12:40 +0000

Very useful information for me. Thank you.

By: GamingMonk

GamingMonk — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:38:56 +0000

Well Yeah its nice to prevent from google penalty and rest of stuff.. because duplicate content is harmful… Well its good now… Thanks for the Information

By: psp games

psp games — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:41:23 +0000

Very interesting that Matt cares about WP bloggers and wants to help them gain better rankings in SE.

Thanks

By: Niyaz

Niyaz — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:04:52 +0000

wow thats great.. i appreciate it Thank You

By: SEO Algarve

SEO Algarve — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:20:51 +0000

Thanks nice blog regards!

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:30:32 +0000

There are two things that could cause problems.
First is that I said is_singlar instead of is_single()

The second is that the quotes used might are being changed to the fancy directional quotes in some browsers. So, copy what is listed above and paste into your code anywhere you have a meta line in header.php. Then change the quotes from the fancy directional double quotes to the normal double quotes. That should get you going!

By: Max

Max — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:16:13 +0000

Very useful information. Thanks!!

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:30:48 +0000

I keep getting an error when I insert it into the header file. The php is formatted correctly so I don’t get it. Is there any specific place it needs to be inserted?

By: Oliver

Oliver — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:55:05 +0000

Very nice theme congrats.

By: Writing Contests

Writing Contests — Sat, 24 May 2008 16:03:49 +0000

I think I saw a plugin that will do this, am I right?

By: Jim Mirkalami

Jim Mirkalami — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:33:24 +0000

I have been visiting this site a lot lately, so i thought it is a good idea to show my appreciation with a comment.

Thanks,
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By: shane

shane — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:17:06 +0000

Hey Brian great tip.
Ok maybe I’m just a dummy ( actually thats a foregone conclusion) But when I put that in my header.php I keep getting a parse error. I dont expect support but Could you , when you have the time maybe clarify where in the header, ive looked at how some of the php code is formatted and tried to duplicate to no avail
Cheers and Beers
Shane

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:15:05 +0000

No Brian - no caching was being used.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:03:18 +0000

Yes it should, did you have any caching installed on those pages?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:10:38 +0000

No problem Brian - I thought it was a little strange you hadn’t replied to my comment but forgot about it and didn’t come back to the post.

I’ve tried it temporarily on one of my sites and I’m not seeing any of the page headers show “noindex” only “index”. Shouldn’t it be showing the “noindex” on the category, month and years pages, etc.? Or am I not understanding how it works?

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:58:28 +0000

Sorry Kevin, I’d typed up a comment just so that you would be notified. I even went out to visit your site after I typed it up. I must have gotten so caught up in one of your posts that I forgot to hit “post comment” back here… Anyway, glad it makes sense now…

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:58:22 +0000

John - I’m glad you said something - I hadn’t noticed the update to the post until your comment. Thanks.

By: John Motson

John Motson — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:30:16 +0000

Ah cool, sorry about that

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:18:10 +0000

@John - thanks for the input. What I was missing was how to format the code and it looks like Brian updated the post with that since my comment. Now I should be able to get it to work.

By: John Motson

John Motson — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:44:55 +0000

Great post Brian. I will definitely plug it into my blog.

@Kevin - basically what the code does is tell the visiting google bots to only consider and index the actual post. If the bot found this post via the categories link or any other way through your blog, then you are kindly asking the google bot to not index it and hence hurt your ranking.

Just plug it into your header.php

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:27:30 +0000

Brian - I don’t understand how to use this. What an I missing?