Nofollow or Dofollow for Wordpress Archives

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Jalpari, Sep 19, 2009.

  1. #1
    Someone told me se will take ur content duplicate so set nofollow tags for wordpress archives. Is there some truth in it?
     
    Jalpari, Sep 19, 2009 IP
  2. lanta99

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    #2
    IMO, you should use dofollow since thats the only way to pass link juice to older posts.
     
    lanta99, Sep 19, 2009 IP
  3. seoeverything

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    I would not worry about the duplicate content issue with Wordpress and would advise against using the nofollow I run several Wordpress blogs and several more for clients and have had no issues with duplicate content as a result of allowing the archives to be indexed.
     
    seoeverything, Sep 19, 2009 IP
  4. Sem-Advance

    Sem-Advance Notable Member

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    #4
    There is no such thing as dofollow.

    All links are followed unless the tag rel=nofollow in the coding of the hyperlink.

    Typically you will want the spiders from visiting all your blogs useless pages, like the archives and your RSS feed.

    If your Wordpress blog is at root level you can use the robots.txt below


    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /cgi-bin/
    Disallow: /wp-
    Disallow: /search
    Disallow: /feed
    Disallow: /comments/feed
    Disallow: /feed/$
    Disallow: /*/feed/$
    Disallow: /*/feed/rss/$
    Disallow: /*/trackback/$
    Disallow: /*/*/feed/$
    Disallow: /*/*/feed/rss/$
    Disallow: /*/*/trackback/$
    Disallow: /*/*/*/feed/$
    Disallow: /*/*/*/feed/rss/$
    Disallow: /*/*/*/trackback/$

    If your Wordpress blog is installed at yoursite.com/blog/ or similiar, you'll need a robots.txt file like this:


    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /cgi-bin/
    Disallow: /blog/wp-
    Disallow: /blog/search
    Disallow: /blog/feed
    Disallow: /blog/comments/feed
    Disallow: /blog/feed/$
    Disallow: /blog/*/feed/$
    Disallow: /blog/*/feed/rss/$
    Disallow: /blog/*/trackback/$
    Disallow: /blog/*/*/feed/$
    Disallow: /blog/*/*/feed/rss/$
    Disallow: /blog/*/*/trackback/$
    Disallow: /blog/*/*/*/feed/$
    Disallow: /blog/*/*/*/feed/rss/$
    Disallow: /blog/*/*/*/trackback/$

    Hope it helps.

    :)
     
    Sem-Advance, Sep 20, 2009 IP
  5. Jalpari

    Jalpari Notable Member

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    #5
    why need to set nofollow for archives and RSS feed.
     
    Jalpari, Sep 23, 2009 IP
  6. Sem-Advance

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    #6
    To prevent search engines from seeing them as duplicate content.
     
    Sem-Advance, Sep 23, 2009 IP