Hosted Wordpress Blog creating Duplicate Content

[TomHu]

In my first report from SEOmoz, I see that there are a bunch of "duplicate content" errors that originate from our blog hosted on Wordpress. For example, it's showing that the following URLs all have duplicate content:

http://blog.kultureshock.net/2012/11/20/the-secret-merger/ys/
http://blog.kultureshock.net/2012/11/16/vendome-prize-website/gallery-7701/
http://blog.kultureshock.net/2012/11/20/the-secret-merger/sm/
http://blog.kultureshock.net/2012/11/26/top-ten-tips-to-mastering-the-twitterverse/unknown/
http://blog.kultureshock.net/2012/11/20/the-secret-merger/bv/

They all lead to the various images that have been used in various blog posts. But, I'm not sure why they are considered duplicate content because they have unique URLs and the title meta tag is unique for each one, too.

But even so, I don't want these extraneous URLs cluttering up our search results, so, I'm removing all of the links that were automatically created when placing the images in the posts. But, once I do that, will these URLs eventually disappear, or continue to be there?

Because our blog is hosted by Wordpress, I unfortunately can't add any of the SEO plugins I've read about, so, wondering how to fix this without special plugins.

Thanks!
Tom

[JarnoNijzing]

Hi tom,

why are you not considering hosting your own wordpress blog on another server of with a hosting company? That way you can install seo plugins but also perhaps resolve some of these issues that seem to be created by software used by wordpress. If you install it on your own server you get more of a hand in the possibilities of your blog. Still doesnt resolve the issues? Contact the wordpress forum for a technical assistant who perhaps can assist you.

At appears to me this is a very technical solution more appropriate at the wordpress forum but thats just me.

I would start by hosting it away from the wordpress server.

regards

Jarno

[TomHu]

Hi Jarno,

I'm going to install Wordpress on our own server soon so we have more control and can add SEO plugins.

Don't know if that will clean up the mess already created, though.

Thanks,
Tom