WARNING: Hidden Duplicate Content Issue

  • Resolved airheads

    (@airheads)


    14 years, 2 months ago

    Just a heads-up to y’all using WordPress with comments enabled.

    Not sure if I’m the first one to notice this (I sure couldn’t find any discussions on this when I searched), but WordPress has an unaddressed duplicate content issue when you enable comments on your site

    In a nutshell, if you get enough comments on a given page, you’ll end up with a duplicate page (bad for SEO) where the continuing comments are the only fresh content

    I will be looking for a solution for this in the next couple of days, but if you know how to address this, drop a line below

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Go to Settings/Discussion in your admin panel and uncheck “Break comments into pages.”

    Thread Starter airheads

    (@airheads)

    Thank you for your reply; I actually thought of that.

    Unfortunately that is bad for SEO for entirely different reason – endless page length slows down the loading speed.

    Granted, nowhere near as bad as duplicate content.

    Given a choice of non-stellar-but-not-that-bad-either workaround and no solution whatoever, changing that setting is actually a good idea

    Thank you!

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    You’re welcome!

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