Several High Priority Issues On Moz Analytics Relating To My Wordpress Search Function

[DavidC.]

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[ATP]

David,

You need a plugin like https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/

Wordpress is kinda messy in its basic form and creates lots of duplicate pages due to tag, author, category and other pages. This plugin lets you clean most of that up automatically and gives you easy access to robots and htaccess files where you can block and rewrite duplciate urls yourself.

There are lots of posts about it on these forums and out in the general web.

Can I also suggest you choose a better example next time? I expected the content of the article itself but wasn't prepared for images of half naked bodies across my work computer in a busy office and had to exit quickly. Bad form sir

[DavidC.]

My apologies my friend... I guess I should have warned that. At least it's not nudity. Will put a warning.

As to this yoast plugin, is that similar to the SEO plugin? And how can I clean up all the old errors with this? Thanks my friend.

[ATP]

It all depends how you want to go about it.

Many people simply don't use tags for this very issue, normally the main page with outrank any tags pages and they are more a gimmick that a useful feature now. I think tag pages may have even been hit hard by the latest phantom google update (can someone confirm?)

But if you do want to keep them then you can look into options such as Noindexing them, so they dont appear in search engines removing the warnings. This its what is good about plugings such as yoast. They offer several solutions for keeping them or removing them.

You need to have a think about your site structure and move forward from there. Consider every page on your website and decide if it adds something or just create duplicate content.

If its just useless and duplicates your good content - look to remove
If its duplicated content but add userbility for visitors then look to Noindex it, or canoical tag it.

Decide what you want to do with these pages and we can direct you a little more.

[DavidC.]

Thank you my friend, I will get Yoast, and learn about it a bit more.

I will noindex all the tag pages. Hopefully that helps the issue.

I am in the process of going through my 1,000 plus blog posts, and deleting anything that isn't useful or original, but it is a long and painful process......

Thanks for the advice!

[MattRoney]

Noindexing the tag pages will likely work. You could also try using robots.txt to block crawlers from accessing pages that have URL parameters unique to those tag pages, but you'll want to make sure it won't affect your site's crawlability before you do that.

[DavidC.]

Hello guys:

Please pardon my ignorance, a couple more questions if I may?

1. Is it the Wordpress SEO by Yoast plugin that you are referring to? If not, which one was it?

2. I'm currently using the All In One SEO Pack, should I deactivate this if I'm going to use the Yoast Wordpress SEO plugin? Will it serve a similar purpose (creating title, description, and keywords for each blog post)?

3. Can I "noindex" the tag pages using the Yoast Wordpress SEO plugin?

4. If not, how do I noindex, or can you point me to a good laymans terms thread on how to do it?

Thanks guys!

David

[DavidC.]

Sorry to bother guys, hope my questions above didn't "slip through the cracks"...

[MattRoney]

I'm not an expert on Wordpress, so I can't help much there. Start here for noindex/nofollow, though:

https://moz.com/learn/seo/robotstxt

[ATP]

Hi David, sorry i only check the forums on weekdays.

I don't use wordpress on a regular basis so my knowledge to hand isn't the best. But everything you need to do to set up yaost or most other SEO plugins have really good tutorial videos on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=seo+yoast+tutorial+2015

The top few hold  your hand through the basic installations and set-ups and should take you 90% of the way.

Sorry its not a direct solution.