If you write good content and find that when publishing your post could go into more than one category, what do you do? Do you tick each of the relevant categories boxes? I am sure your readers would appreciate it if you did tick each of the relevant categories. You cannot second guess your reader. They may place this article in the WordPress tip category, or the blog plugins or perhaps even the blogging tips.
Unfortunately, when you tick more than one category box you run the risk of having your post placed in the duplicate content pile by search engines. As they crawl your pages they read each post in each category. Use two categories for your post and the spider reads it twice – hello – duplicate content.
There is a plugin available that puts a stop to the duplicate content issue. It works by placing a ‘noindex, follow’ into the robots meta tag for each of the offending pages. A simple cure for a potentially big problem.
Blog plugins like this are everywhere, they are just difficult to track down sometimes. This plugin is available from the SEO Logs along with all the information needed to download and install. You can check out other blog plugins from our wide range of articles and blogging tips.
