Advanced WordPress SEO Optimization

how do you deal with a page that has 2 urls? for example:

/category/article-title & /?page_id=252 having the same content just different URLs?

Cant post links yet so had to break it up

Awesome thread! Can't thank enough!

One nice plugin for Wordpress SEO is a dashboard including your SERP rankings : wordpress . org/extend/plugins/myposeo-dashboard/screenshots/
It's really neat having my rankings directly in my wordpress interface.

Great post. I like wordpress because it's very user friendly, but agree that most of the theme in the market are not SEO-friendly. This post is a truly enlightenment.

I read an article recently about the rel="next" tags that are in wordpress and the idea was that they are used to try and show a relationship between posts in a category. The problem is that Google tries to work that into their search results and might group the posts as one indexed page. The problem with this is that those posts may not be related... so this can affect your SEO when the articles are not similar at all.

The best approach then is to remove the rel="next" and rel="last". You will have to google this as I cannot post links yet. Wordpress has made it hard to remove these automatically created links so you will have to look it up. Also search the rel tags in the Cutts blog to see how they use them.

Google's not trying to group them as one indexed page that's such a ludicrous idea I'm speechless.

What they are trying to do is combat PR sculpting methods in anyway they can. With this method once googlebot gets to the end of the page it has to follow and attribute the internal link juice to the landing page of our choice. So yeah, they definitely rather take back control of that situation

Saw a lot of people asking about a good theme to start out with.

Don't know if anyone answered already, but the best theme out there that already has most of this implemented already is hands down Thesis. It looks like shit and will take a lot of custom work to get build it from scratch, but you won't have to go back later on and change anything. Look into yourself though I haven't developed from it in awhile.

It does also place the content higher than the sidebar though. Whether or not that's still relevant. I think it still is. At least if its a non spam link that's relevantly placed.

newyorkcity said:

how do you deal with a page that has 2 urls? for example:

/category/article-title & /?page_id=252 having the same content just different URLs?

Cant post links yet so had to break it up

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You use a canonical tag from the copy to the main one (you want indexed and listed in SERPs). Ideally however, you should have just one URL and make it that any other URL to trigger a 301 redirect to main.

Great post. thanks.

Good post bro.

Keep in mind that this without good off-page SEO will be 0.

Good post madoctopus.

is there any other technique to be more seo friendly with google penguin? i have do many suggestions include these techniques, but my web goes fall down..

damn thanks for this! definitely bookmarking this!

anwarcasello said:

is there any other technique to be more seo friendly with google penguin? i have do many suggestions include these techniques, but my web goes fall down..

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That's because you kill them with shitload of crappy links. Instead of blasting thousands of links to the site just build 30-50 manual d0f0llow comments and then do some automated d0f0llow links. Never do n0f0llow links, especially in large numbers.

Yo, Madoctopus

I have a question regarding optimizing blogpost comments. On my site there are so many comments that it's really affecting my html/text ratio. I'm currently <30% text. Every time someone comments it leaves more code than text so it's diluting content even though it's really adding it for the visitor. Is there a way to hide all of this?

Also, the theme is designed to give H tags to stupid things. I'm thinking that I should change the class to a specific style and have those in like an emboldened text size 4 or something. Will this change the weight of optimization?

Here's the first part of the comments, notice H2:

<div id="comments-wrapper">
<div id="comments">
<h2 class="alt">Discussion · <strong>33 Comments</strong></h2>
<small>There are 33 responses to "My Post Name".</small>
<div class="comment-navigation clearfix">
<div class="left action"></div>
<div class="right action"></div>
</div>

Now, here is what shows up for EVERY comment. Notice H4
<ol class="commentlist">
<li class="comment even thread-even depth-1 comments-li" id="li-comment-165">
<div id="comment-165" class="comment-container">
<img alt='' src='http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/aa67fdbed46bf2a88359b3e81f416f45?s=40&d=%3Cpath_to_url%3E&r=G' class='avatar avatar-40 photo' height='40' width='40' />
<div class="comment-body-container border_bottom">
<div class="comment-meta clearfix">
<h4 class="comment-author"><a href='http://Website(optional)' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>allie</a> says:</h4> <span class="comment-date">July 6, 2012 at 8:19 pm</span>
</div>
<div class="comment-body clearfix">
<p>Here is the text of the comment.</p>
</div>
<a class='comment-reply-link' href='/mypostname/stuff.blah' onclick='return addComment.moveForm("comment-165", "165", "respond", "80")'>Reply</a>
</div>
</div>

Thanks if you can help..

Solid information I have always used all in one seo, but going to test with your recommended plugins.

@AR!ZONA

No need to have a high text/markup ratio. As a matter of fact that would be an indicator of a spammy autogenerated site. Don't worry about that.

I would change the H2 content to something like "33 People Replied to Post Title Here" if you have low keyword density on the pages. Otherwise leave it as is but eliminate the <strong>.

For the actual comment change H4 to a neutral tag like DIV. You can if you want use first N words of the comment as a title and use H4 for that. That's how Drupal does it. But depending on various things related to density and relevance that might either produce over-optimization or dilute your relevance. So probably best bet is to just leave it as is.

These things must be done with finesse and can differ greatly from site to site. On a site X details might be great on other might not be as good.

Very detailed thanks alot man!

Hello,

One quick question, in my site, every post I place number of tags and I actually getting visit from that tags page. However, it could be duplicate content. What should I do as the tag pages have already been indexed? The tag is do-follow link.

Thanks..

binaryking said:

Hello,

One quick question, in my site, every post I place number of tags and I actually getting visit from that tags page. However, it could be duplicate content. What should I do as the tag pages have already been indexed? The tag is do-follow link.

Thanks..

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Make your tag pages the right way. I already explained that in a previous post in this thread (look it up). Basically you use very relevant tags and make sure not to have many tags associated with just one post. Also, it helps to add a unique tag description and keep the posts excerpts short.