How to fix duplicate page content and page titles?

[prospects]

Apologies in advance if this has already been answered (it probably has) - I'm just not seeing it.

Is there a guide on here for how to fix the issues brought up by the crawler - specifically, things like duplicate page content, or duplicate page titles?  A lot of these seem to have been created by wordpress.org combos that I didn't anticipate - i.e., category pages, author pages, etc.  The crawler brings up the problems, but I don' t know where to start to go about fixing them.

Also, any guide on best SEO practices or fixing optimization problems, specifically for wordpress.org blogs, would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[JoshPugh]

Hi prospects,

It's a common problem, so no need to apologise!

You'll find a lot of good information about this in two places: SEOMoz for one has some great information about canonicalisation. This is basically the act of telling your website that while this page exists, it's basically a duplicate of another page. This way Google will only look at the "original".

Secondly in terms of Wordpress, I'm a huge fan of Yoast and their articles about optimising Wordpress. In addition to that, they have a fantastic plugin for Wordpress which gives you all the power you'll need to do the required things in Wordpress, so I seriously recommend that you check that out too!

I hope that helps you out!

[prospects]

Thanks Josh,

Great help.  I will definitely check out these resources.

Appreciate it!