Duplicate pages on wordpress

[OVJ]

I am doing SEO on a site which is running on WP. And it has all pages and categories duplicates on domain.com/site/

However, as it got crawled I saw that all domain.com/ pages have rel=canonical with main page tag (does it mean something?). Thing is I will fix permalinks structure and I think WP automatically redirects if it is changed from /?page_id=  to  /%category%/%postname%/ or  /%postname%/

Isn't there something I miss?

Second problems is a forum. After a crawl it found over 5k errors and over 5k warnings. Those are: Duplicate page content; Duplicate page title; Overly-Dynamic URLs; Missing Meta descr; Title Element too long. All those come from domain.com/forum/ (fortunately, there are no domain.com/site/forum duplicates).

What could be an easy solution to this?

[BlueprintMarketing]

You may want to use Yoast Wordpress SEO this plug-in will allow you to delete categories. That would solve your problem from what you're describing however if you could send me your link I would appreciate it and I could tell you a lot more.

You would also want to NO index all archives

Thomas

[evolvingSEO]

Hi There

Not 100% sure I am interpreting the question correctly, but let's give this a shot Few things to do;

• make sure to first install Yoast like Thomas suggestions
• noindex subpages of archives
• keep categories indexed, that's fine.
• you can choose to remove /category/ from the URL but I recommend leaving it there.
• Yoast should automatically add proper canonical on each page automatically. as long as you don't do anything else to effect this, it should be all set by default.
• be sure to noindex tags, these are not needed in the index.

Some further resources for you;

• http://moz.com/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success
• http://moz.com/webinars/hands-on-answers-to-the-most-asked-wordpress-qestions
• http://wordpress.tv/2013/08/13/justin-briggs-seo-in-wordpress/

Hope that helps!

-Dan

[evolvingSEO]

Hey Thomas - thanks for jumping in! Just to clarify;

• Yoast will allow you to noindex categories - I'm sure that's what you meant. You can delete categories in the default WP setup.
• And I think you mean "noindex all subpages of archives"