Facibus On Blogging

I read John Chow’s article on the google supplemental index the other day. Google puts duplicate content into this evil bin of no return called the supplemental index, based on the theory that duplicate blog content is probably autoblogged. This is not OK if you are a WordPress user like my fine self and throw things into multiple categories (as well as making things available from an archive page, tag pages, and so on.

I’ve started to fix this - the category/archive pages now contain the noindex tag thanks to the Duplicate Content Cure plugin for WordPress. I finally got around to checking my own status using the SEO for FireFox plugin.

Here’s the result for Facibus Reviews:

And here is the result for this blog:

I’ve got a problem

I thought about following the advice given at Not So Boring Life - creating a robots.txt file that excludes all duplicated directories (such as /tag/ for tag navigation and the YYYY/MM date archive ones) - but I am waiting to see if the Duplicate Content Cure plugin for WordPress works first.

I’ll let you know how it goes.