How to avoid Duplicate Content Creation While Assigning One Post in 2 Categories

[wolfeyes]

Hello Everyone,

I need advice with blog post in wordpress. I have one blog which i wish to assign to 2 different categories as the blog is related to both of the categories, for eg infographics & How to. I have noticed that if i have one post related 2 categories it flags as Duplicate content how to over come this issue.

Your advice is highly appreciated.

Warmest

[DirkC]

The best way to deal with this is using canonical url's. Choose one of the 2 pages are "main" page - use a canonical on the second page to point to the "main" version.

Example: yourdomain.com/category1/article.htm => main page
yourdomain.com/category2/article.htm -> in the head section of this article put:

This way Google will know it only has to index yourdomain.com/category1/article.htm.
To learn more about canonicals: 
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en

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

Dirk

[donford]

Hi Wolf,

I can add to this.

Wordpress is very well noted for creating duplicate content. It does this in other ways not just categories using archives and tags. It has been awhile since I played around with my Wordpress sites but there plugins that claim to fix this by using just what Dirk suggested, or by using the noindex no follow tag.
Duplicate Content Cure
Yoast SEO

I can not vouch for any plugin as I don't use Wordpress regularly, what you have is a common issue that these plugins claim to address.

I hope this helps,

Don

[wolfeyes]

Thanks Dirk,

it helps

[wolfeyes]

Thanks don

[Caro-O]

I'm interested to know if this resolved your problem. I'm having the same issue, but with tags. Some of my WordPress blog posts have 4 or 5 tags, and Moz is flagging this as 4 or 5 cases of duplicate content.