Issue: Duplicate Page Content > Wordpress Comments Page

[DomainUltra]

Hello Moz Community,

I've create a campaign in Moz and received hundreds of errors, regarding "Duplicate Page Content". After some review, I've found that 99% of the errors in the "Duplicate Page Content" report are occurring due to Wordpress creating a new comment page (with the original post detail), if a comment is made on a blog post. The post comment can be displayed on the original blog post, but also viewable on a second URL, created by Wordpress.

• http://www.Example.com/example-post
• http://www.Example.com/example-post/comment-page-1

Anyone else experience this issue in Wordpress or this same type of report in Moz?

Thanks for your help!

[BlueprintMarketing]

yes I believe I can help you. If you're using regular WordPress comments do this

• Using comment pagination in WordPress?
  This feature should just be disabled (under settings -> discussion) on 99% of sites.

here is some more info if needed but let me know as I understand WordPress pretty well.

http://yoast.com/articles/duplicate-content/

[DomainUltra]

Hi Thomas,

Your suggestion worked.  Thank you!

This option was checked in my Wordpress install, so I unchecked in Settings > Discussion. "Break comments into pages with ___ top level comments per page and the ___ page displayed by default"

[BlueprintMarketing]

Hi Jeremy,

Good thinking I was going to post this along with it however I was having trouble with Imgur but you bring up an excellent point both of those two things should be done.

I have posted a photo below of what you were talking about and condensed this response into both the poster myself and your post to make it easier for people in the future who have the same problem.

Using comment pagination in WordPress?
This feature should just be disabled (under settings -> discussion)

Settings > Discussion. "Break comments into pages with ___ top level comments per page and the ___ page displayed by default"

Great job and thumbs up to you for your answer making this complete.

All the best,

Thomas

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[mihaiaperghis]

Hey Jeremy,

You could opt to continue paginating comments, and use a rel="canonical" tag to ensure Google doesn't see comment pagination as duplicate content.

If i remember correctly, the Wordpress SEO by Yoast plugin should automatically take care of this, but you can also implement it manually via this code in the section of your template:

Source: http://www.shoutmeloud.com/wordpress-duplicate-content-problems-fixes.html

Hope this helps

[DomainUltra]

Hi Mihai,

Another great option, using pagination for blogs with extensive comments.

Thank you!