Help: my WordPress Blog generates too many onpage links and duplicate content
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I have a WordPress Blog since November last year (so I'm pretty new to WordPress) and the effects on ranking for some keywords are really good. So I thought tag clouds are good.
Crawl Diagnostics tell me now that I have too many onpage links for example my author page breaks the record: 256
http://inlinear.com/blog/author/inlinear/I think thats because there are links for each word in the tag cloud generated ...
On this page (and many other pages) WordPress displays (teasers) the beginning of each post (read more ...) producing duplicate content and even new canonical tags....
The page titles are also too long because I installed "All in One SEO Pack" and now this plugin and wordpress itself mixes titles together ...
But what can I do to avoid all this. Is there a PlugIn that can help... I think millions of blogs will have the same problems... I my blog yet has very few content.
Thanks for your answers :))
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Thanks Mike,
many useful advises.
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Thanks Marcus,
I will also read this. -
Thanks a lot, I will see it !!
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Tag Clouds are bad. People need to stay away from them.
Make sure you don't have any useless one-off tags. Far too many people think that since Tags point to relevancy and could be useful for SEO that they should then add 15 "relevant" tags to a post. But then you've potentially created 16 duplicate pages. Tags help for relevancy by relating one post to other posts. If there's only one post in that tag page then its not helping you (UNLESS you plan on eventually adding more posts to that tag in the future).
Author page can get annoying in Wordpress but its the least of all worries concerning duplicate content. You can always lessen the problem by getting more authors. Otherwise, don't get too worried about that page.
All in One SEO Pack shouldn't be integrating poorly with wordpress and causing title issues. What it may be doing that is causing the overly long titles is that it adds on " | [insert Long Blog Name]" after the title of the article. So if you put in a long title, it then also adds in your case " | INLINEAR Digital Marketing & Brasilien Blog" which gives you about 20 characters to work with for your "optimized" title. Anything more than that will trigger the Title Too Long warning.
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Hey Holger
I don't use all in one SEO Pack so it may do this but certainly, the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin will allow you to sort out a lot of these issues.
You can likely noindex your author and tag indexes as they are essentially just duplicates and the WordPress SEO plugin will allow you to fix your page titles.
Follow the advice in this article and you can't go far wrong:
http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/
Hope that helps!
Marcus -
Hi Holger,
I would recommend to view the latest webinar by Nick Herinckx on Advanced Wordpress SEO. He's providing some crucial tips also regarding your problems. The webinar could be found here: http://www.seomoz.org/webinars#past .
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