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One of WordPress’ strengths is its attention to SEO-related issues in its core files. One of those issues is the problem of having the home page of the blog indexed twice in the search engines; once under the actual address, http://domain-name.com/index.php, and the other as the plain domain name: http://domain-name.com. Note that this is a [...]
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Anyone who’s ever done any affiliate marketing knows the value of ‘cloaking’ outgoing affiliate links. First, it can deter the occasional commission thief who will strip out your affiliate code and replace it with their own, robbing you of a well-earned commission. Just as importantly, it makes your links more ‘professional’ looking when the visitor [...]
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An update: Twitter has seen fit to deprecate (discontinue) the search function that this plugin depended on. Until I can come up with some kind of solution, you should deactivate the plugin if you’re using it; you might have some unexpected errors.
Today is release day for Twavatar – Twitter Avatars For Your WordPress Blog.
It is [...]
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Smashing Magazine recently released a WordPress “plug-in that uses Twitter to show avatars in comments in WordPress blogs”.
While I like the idea, the implementation leaves a little bit to be desired. Comments to the release post indicate that some effort is being made to address the shortcomings in the plugin code, but as yet those [...]
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Dealing With Duplicate Content Issues on WordPress Comments Pages
by Steve on April 18, 2009
in On WordPress, WordPress plugins
I saw a tweet today about WordPress comment page duplication issues related to SEO. While the word is still out as to just how much damage it does or doesn’t do to your ability to get found by the Great G, this specific problem is relatively easily fixed — and not by disabling the paged [...]
Tagged as: add_action, canonical, comments, cpage, duplicate content, functions.php, get_permalink, google, plugins, wordpress code
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