Tag Archives: SEO

Paged Comments and the SEO Problem: A Solution

by Austin Matzko on December 15, 2008 at 4:26 pm

The paged comments feature new in WordPress 2.7 is handy for reducing page size, but it introduces the search engine optimization (SEO) problem of putting the same content on different permalinks, as some have pointed out. That’s because the complete post would appear at all of these permalinks:
http://example.com/my-post-permalink/
http://example.com/my-post-permalink/comment-page-1/
http://example.com/my-post-permalink/comment-page-2/
My solution in this short plugin is to [...]

Posted in Themes | Also tagged | Read the 137 comments

Does Google Discourage the use of WordPress Permalinks?

by Austin Matzko on September 26, 2008 at 11:06 am

A recent blog entry by Google’s Search Quality Team members Juliane Stiller and Kaspar Szymanski somewhat confusingly gives the impression that Google does not like WordPress-style permalinks.
Does that mean I should avoid rewriting dynamic URLs at all?
That’s our recommendation, unless your rewrites are limited to removing unnecessary parameters, or you are very diligent [...]

Posted in Industry, Themes | Also tagged , | Read the 2 comments