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How to Change Permalink Structure in WordPress without Duplicate Content

| October 14, 2009 | 12 Comments
Recently we had a client who wanted to change their Permalink structure from Old Permalink structure: /%author%/%category%/%postname%/ to: New Permalink structure: /%author%/%category%/%postname%/%post_id%/ so that they would qualify for Google News. Apparently you need at least 3 digits in your URL in order to qualify for Google News. I wanted to simply change the Permalink structure by going to ... View Post

Canonical URLs to help WordPress duplicate content issue

| February 23, 2009 | 11 Comments
Fancy words aside, a canonical URL is Google's way of identifying a "preferred" URL for your posts to avoid duplicate content. Duplicate content is generally defined as "separate web pages with substantially the same content, which may attract a penalty from search engines." Wordpress is often criticized for having duplicate content since ... View Post