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Rel author and duplicate content
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I have a question if a page who a im the only author, my web will duplicate content with the blog posts and the author post as they are the same. ¿what is your suggestion in that case? thanks
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Hi Dario, no-indexing the author archive is probably the most commonly used method to prevent duplicate content issues from harming single author blogs in terms of search. However, it is not the only method, and is not the best one in terms of usability. Other options include redirecting the author archive page to the blog home page, using canonical tags, or disabling the author archive altogether. In terms of usability, I prefer the last option. Why create an author archive at all for a single person blog?
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I know that it sounds weird to no-index the author page. In some ways i agree with that.
But it's very normal to no-index archive pages because that is obvious duplicate content.An author page is nothing more than an archive page filtered to just one author.
I hope this makes you see my solution in a different way. I still think that no-indexing is the best way you thing you can do.
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Thats correct
domain.com/blog content is the same as domain.com/author/name
domain.com/blog page rank 1 (more authority)
domain.com/author/name page rank 2 (less authority) no links from the site
its not the only option, i would like more options, like create a new author and intercalate post, or other suggestions as just do not index page
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What i gather from your question is that if you say you are the author of a piece of content. Your CMS will create to pages. One for the category where your blog post resides and one on the author page.
If this is what you mean then you should make sure the search engines don't index your author page. You can do that by placing the following piece of code in the HTML head section of your website: <meta name="robots" content="index, follow" =""></meta name="robots">
In order to be associated as the author to the search engines you should use the rel=author in your hyperlink.
For example: rel="author">My domainDid this answer your question?
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