How do you reduce duplicate content for tags and categories in Wordpress?

[Mivito]

Is it possible to avoid a duplicate content error without limiting a post to only one category or tag?

[iugac]

Hello,

yes, it is possible. Check out rel canonical: http://moz.com/learn/seo/canonicalization

Regarding Wordpress, here's a good article related to canonicalization: http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wordpress-canonicalization-guide/

Let me know if this helps!

Cristian

[paul-bold]

Hey Michael,

Have you looked into doing a noindex on your tag pages? I'd first check your analytics and see if any of those tag pages are driving traffic/conversions before going ahead and noindexing.

Cheers!

[JCurrier]

Dylan made a good suggestion. I'd just add to make sure that if you do noindex your tag and/or category pages, do a noindex/follow. This will ensure that the bots can find your content, but you aren't competing with your own content in the search engines.

[evolvingSEO]

Hi Michael

It looks like everyone here pretty much has you covered. I also wanted to point you to this resource I did for Moz on setting up WordPress for SEO: http://moz.com/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success

In general, I'd agree with noindexing tags. You can index categories, but this won't result in overlapping content as long as you put posts in just 2-3 categories each.