I fully understand that. People at my work fully advocate the use of plugins, I personally believe that somethings should be hard-coded into the theme (This being one of those things).

Chances are once you find an SEO plugin you tend to stick with it until you notice issues or find one that does things better.

I'm surprised that WordPress doesn't do more to help prevent duplicate content.

Also, if you use the plugin to set the posts to no-follow and you want to change SEO plugin changes are those settings won't be transferred, if you code the solution into the theme its plugin independent and (in my eyes) the best way to go about avoiding duplication in WordPress.

This seems overly complex for a coding solution. All you need is 3 lines of code (max) in header.php of your theme (See my reply above)

That will only put noindex on the date archives.

I noticed the same problem and wrote an article on how to avoid duplication in WordPress. For a fresh WordPress installation with 10 published posts, Google ends up indexing close to 30 URLs, all pointing back to just 10 unique articles, because of the date, author and category archive pages.

In header.php of your theme add the following code:

 1){
  echo '';
} ?>

';
} ?>

';
} ?>

If you want, this could be condensed to:

$paged > 1 || is_author() || is_trackback()){
  echo '';
} ?>

You can read more at my blog: http://www.laceytechsolutions.co.uk/blog/wordpress-development/avoiding-duplicate-content-in-wordpress

This is what I said in my post, was I not clear enough?

"Personally I would have a single Google+ account for your business"

"You could then add each of your offices to Google Places as separate entities, to target the different areas"

You'd be surprised. Quite a few forums where I contribute allow followed links, however you cannot set the anchor text. The text of the link is your website address. Google+ allows you to have followed links from your profile to other sites, which is cool, I think it uses rel="contributor" or something.

You need to look at the bigger picture and not rely solely on Google Analytics, SEOMoz or any one tool in-particular. In the case of Google Analytics some users may not be tracked (not got JavaScript enabled) or you may be counting your own clicks on through your website if you don't exclude your IP address from Google Analytics.

In regards to trusting SEOMoz with your Google analytics data, I think you can. As previously mentioned SEOMoz is a community of SEO's and the tools that SEOMoz provide can be enhanced by linking your accounts.

I'm a new Mozzer and I always thumbs up other people's responses if I learnt something new thanks to their response. I think its good etiquette more than anything, I also think its nice to thumbs up if you agree with a response.

I may be wrong but I'm in full agreement that it takes time to reply to questions on the site, but its worth it knowing your helping others

One thing I've noticed is that some people reply after me in Q+A, rewording what I've said and adding their view, but instead of me getting the thumbs up / good answer ... they get it. Personally I think the person who answered first should get the thumbs up, or am I wrong in thinking that?

I would have thought Google would have allowed you to change it. What if you stopped being a local business and grew to be international, surely you would want to change your profile type from 'Local business' to 'Company, Institute or Organization'.

Are Google assuming then, that companies will only ever be one type of business? Seems a little short sighted to me.

Is there a way to change your google+ profile type after the profile has been created? So change from a local business to a company/institution/organization page?

Glad to see you also sorted out the non-www to www permanent redirect on shwoodshop.com. I would say that this is the quickest way to get site wide content duplication.

Now that you have these redirects put in place your site will be ok. Just make sure you don't delete the redirects!

As far as I know Google will treat content on a subdomain as a separate website, so chances are you're splitting the domain authority over the two websites.

As far as PageRank is concerned this is on a **per page basis (n**ot per site). Every page is ranked on its own individual merits.

Personally I would have a single Google+ account for your business (with a link from both sites going to the same profile). You could then add each of your offices to Google Places as separate entities, to target the different areas.

You could list them on Google Places as:

<company name=""><street>, East Coast</street>
<state>,</state></company>

<company name=""><street>, West Coast
<state>,</state></street></company>

As far as what type of profile you choose I can't really comment on the differences between a local business page compared with a company page. To me 'Company, institution, or Organization' would be a single world-wide entity, whereas a 'Local Business or Place' would be a business with a single shop or a place of interest.

I would say that after a good 30 minutes of looking around on the Internet and Google help pages its a bit unclear as to what the difference is between the profile types, but I hope this helps.

Surely if you're actively contributing to a community forum offering good advice to others then its not a bad idea to have a link back to your site as part of your signature?

I'm not saying that every post or comment you submit would contain a link back to your site because that would be overkill but where its appropriate, surely that's acceptable.

Personally I'd say its better to research forum websites that discuss topics relating to your industry and then useopen site explorer to see what their domain authority is like. Most forums will allow you to have a signature, which could include your website URL, and when answering / contributing to the forum (where applicable) you could link people off to one of your blog posts to help build backlinks to your website.

I'd also recommend submitting your website to a few directory websites relating to your industry. You might have to pay yearly for it, but you will have a link from a reputable / trustworthy domain.

If you have social media profiles like Google+ then you can add links (and your own link text) into your profiles associated links sections. These links are followed by Google, so your site will benefit from the links being there, unlike most backlink exchange sites where they add rel="nofollow" to the links.

Yeah never set a folder's permissions to 777, as that would allow any script in that folder to be run and that is never good! Definitely avoid these instructions. You were right to consult the SEO Moz Q+A before doing anything.

You've made a good point here, and I agree SEO will only work if its done correctly.

I've only recently joined SEOMoz and started to get involved within the community here, but I can say that you do need a basic grasp of SEO concepts if you're to get the best possible results from the tools available online (by SEOMoz or otherwise).

If you use tools incorrectly or don't understand the data that is being shown to you then its easy to chuck hundreds of pounds into Google advertising and in three months time you might be no better off.

I wasn't able to see your original comment, but I agree with Jennifer Sable Lopez; using the Q+A section to rant about things probably isn't the best use of anybody's time but at least a (mainly) positive discussion has started as a result.

Hi Matthew

I thought I would share some advice about some of the existing blog posts on your site.

http://sawwebmarketing.com/web-equity-owning-local-web-presence

This blog post doesn't have any textual content for Google and other search engines to make use of, so I would suggest adding a paragraph or two describing what the image is about, making sure to bold any relevant keywords you wish to use in the article.

http://sawwebmarketing.com/whats-the-real-deal-with-ranking-high-on-google-and-the-other-search-engines

This article is better in terms of there being more text to work with, but there are no headings at all within the article. Google will expect to see the page or post title in a

tag, so within the article I would suggest you use

and

tags where appropriate and bold keywords such as "SEO" or "Web Marketing"

http://sawwebmarketing.com/good-advice-reserve-your-name-and-childrens-names-as-domain-names-today

This article is good and I can see you've tried to add headings using strong/bold tags for things like, "Why is this is a good idea?" but for this I would suggest using a heading like

Is buying a domain using your children's names a good idea?

• This allows you to have "domain" and "buying" as 2 potential keywords that Google will attribute to the blog post when indexing the post.

It might be a good idea to also create a blogger or wordpress.com domain and post content on there as well. If nothing else this would allow you to have a backlink to your main site from a more authoritative site. I know that wordpress.com blogs allow you to auto post a tweet and facebook post when you add an article.

For self-hosted WordPress blogs this functionality isn't available natively but there are plugins that will post a tweet or facebook post when you add new content.

I hope I've been of some help or given you a few ideas for you to try.

Ben