Duplicate Title & Content in WordPress

[seantgreen]

I'm getting a lot of Crawl Errors due to duplicate content and duplicate title because of category and tag posts in WordPress. I rebuilt the sitemap and said to exclude category and tags, should that clear up the issue? I've also went through and did NO INDEX and NO FOLLOW for all categories and posts. Any thoughts on this issue?

[CaseyKluver]

Hi Sean,

Just because you removed them from the sitemap, doesn't mean they wont still cause that duplicate content errors as the page still exists, same with the NO INDEX and NO FOLLOW, the content is still being "duplicated" in multiple locations of your site.

Adding good solid category descriptions before the loop has changed this for me in the past.

[seantgreen]

Casey,

Thanks for the info, sorry I'm unclear what you mean by the term "before the loop"?
Sean

[seantgreen]

I do a podcast and categorize the episode in months, like http://seantgreen.com/category/april2011/ , which has a duplicate problem with http://seantgreen.com/category/april2010/

[CaseyKluver]

"The Loop is used by WordPress to display each of your posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each of the posts to be displayed on the current page and formats them according to how they match specified criteria within The Loop tags."

http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop

Its basically the code that displays the list of posts in your category & tag pages.

[seantgreen]

Thanks. Sorry if this is a basic question, but if I describe lets say the august2010 category as Comedy podcasts from August 2010 even in front of the loop won't that repeated title still cause the errors?