Point 1: I have a front page which is dynamic because it gets all the latest posts that are rated. The question is: do I have to make these posts an excerpt, because that's better for SEO?Point 2: I have two pages where I have links on the left and right sides (widgets) that are pointing to posts. In the middle of the page, I have one post that has the content shown with his own comments and tags beneath the post itself. The question: do I have to set a nofollow on these tags? And what about the links? If I click on a post link, it will bring me to a single.php, which has actually the same lay-out and elements as the pages I described at point 2. Will this be seen as duplicate content?Point 3: I have an alphabetic list of all my posts which are linking to the single page. Is this seen as duplicate content? Do I have to set a nofollow on the links?Point 4: I have author pages which have the last commented and posted posts and reactions of a person... Is this seen as duplicate content and do I have to add a nofollow link?There is so much information that I don't know which one is best or how to look at it. I would really appreciate it if someone can help me out with it.PS: if I generate a XML Sitemap, which of all has the highest priority?
Wordpress - Too much information about SEO tags - archives - posts. Which is best?
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Understanding how nofollow works and what it's meant forYour biggest mistake is your misunderstanding of how nofollow works - a lot of people assume that nofollow means Google will not follow the links, this is not true. Nofollow is considered a attribute that is best used for off-site links, quote from Johns recent answer on another related question:SOURCEGenerally speaking, nofollow should be used on the following type of  links:Untrusted contentPaid linksTackling the duplicate content problemWith the birth of Blog engines such as WordPress created a headache for webmasters a like with duplicate pages such as Tag, Author, Recent, Date, Popular pages etc, Google confronted this issue many years back with the release of rel=canonical, by using canonical pages you are telling search engines that this is the master page and all other pages that the content is found on is ignored without punishment for duplicate content. SOURCEIf Google knows that these pages have the same content, we may index  only one version for our search results. Our algorithms select the  page we think best answers the user's query. Now, however, users can  specify a canonical page to search engines by adding a  element  with the attribute rel=canonical to the  section of the  non-canonical version of the page. Adding this link and attribute lets  site owners identify sets of identical content and suggest to Google:  Of all these pages with identical content, this page is the most  useful. Please prioritize it in search results.Yoast SEO and many alikeAdding canonical pages to WordPress is a walk in the park thanks to many plugin authors such as Yoast SEO, by using such plugins you can easily add REL Canonical to your master pages and make the duplicate content problem go away for good. I've used Yoast as my example as I've used this plugin for many sites and it works well but there are many more plugins that are equally as good which you can explore on the WP plugin library.SOURCEWhen Google introduced the canonical link element, to distinguish the  original page from derivative pages within your site carrying the  same content, they reached out to me to develop a WordPress plugin for  it, and I did. Later on, canonical link elements were added to core.  They work fine, with one caveat: they only work for single posts and  pages, not for categories and tags, not for the homepage. The  WordPress SEO plugin fixes that, and sets the correct canonical on  each of those pages.XML SitemapThe priority settings is should not be considered a reliable option to conquering duplicate content issues, you should opt to use Rel Canonical instead and leave the sitemap untouched.SOURCEQ: If I have multiple URLs that point to the same content, can I use  my Sitemap to indicate my preferred URL for that content? A: Yes.  While we can't guarantee that our algorithms will display that  particular URL in search results, it's still helpful for you to  indicate your preference by including that URL in your Sitemap. We  take this into consideration, along with other signals, when deciding  which URL to display in search results.