Duplicate Ranking Issue
November 16, 2007 3:28 am Search Engine Optimization: SEOI am having some serious doubts about what the fuck I think I know about ranking with posts, and I think the issue is duplicate content. With all the tweaking I’ve done, it seems the search engines are no longer getting my damn posts. Only the home page is ranking for every new post i write which is NOT what I want to happen!!!!!!
Pisses me off….. So… it comes down to the two thinhs I’v e been tweaking - 1) all-in-one-seo title tag 2) sitemap plugin.
I think the stupid ass google & searhc engines can’t distinguish between the post and the damn home page… I’m thinking about making the home page static for future blogs, so that nothing (except links to the posts) show up in addition to the home page content. But the sitemap plugin tells the site to assign priority to the posts versus t the archives versus the homepage.
I’ve set it so that the hompage is now the lowest priority. Let’s see if that takes it back to what it used to be. hopefuly this damdn post will rank for the keyword Duplicate Ranking Issue if not, I’m a jump off a small building…
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Dhira :
Date: November 16, 2007 @ 3:47 pm
Hmmmm as an update it seems it is working. This post is number one in google monster for “duplicate ranking issue” :-) AND NOT THE HOME PAGE!!!
The All in one SEO helps preset the title tag for your posts [which you can change to include your main keyword(s)]
The sitemap plugin can assign priority to the posts over the home page, over the archives, over the category.
I think the setting of priorities on the sitemap plugin is the key, but since messing with it, all my posts somehow cause my home page to rank for terms, instead of the posts themselves… which was not the case before I started screwing around with those two plugins…
Most blogs I see have their posts rank for the title of the post…. not mine anymore..
But since reducin the value of the home page to like 0.2 and told it to crawl the hompage weekly and the posts daily, it seems that’s causing the post to show up first now…. I may have solved it!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let’s see if it holds true.