namelessinmo

I found your post while trying to solve the same thing. Here is what I came up with. First turn off

WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically

This is found in options – writing.

Then put a blank line (enter) then a<br/> with no spaces in it.

Follow with another blank line, then another <br/>. Keep doing this.

The view source looks like this several times

<p><br/></p>

I posted my page where I used this to seperate two articles here. Please view source to see this more clearly.
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I also used the single.php to adjust spacing that I wanted the same every time. Just keep the <br> outside of the php statements.

I hope this helps. I was less than impressed that I had to find a hack for this also.

First, there is no such thing as a * in a robots.txt. A couple groups have tried to get it put into the standard, but not all search engines recognize what * means. To avoid unexpected results, you may want to remove lines with * in them, but it’s up to you.

I see what your saying, I was not paying enough attention apparently. I would have to get rid if things like
Disallow: /*.html/$
Disallow: /*feed*
Disallow: /*amp;*

Does anyone know how much of the robots.txt sample is necessary? I don’t want it to be too complex. I really just want to avoid duplicate content and supplemental results.

I guess you addressed the header the first time when you said:

Third, you don’t need to specify “follow” in your meta tag. “follow” is assumed unless you override it with “nofollow.”

Sorry I missed that, should I change anything else in the header?

adamrbrown,

Thank you for answering. First the * was just generic to represent that I should add in the sitemap. I think I am supposed to?

I saw the allow at more than one website that was discussing the robots.txt, so I thought it was a normal thing to do. I appreciate you pointing it out.

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Now some specifics…

I have a few php links that I will be updating in the future at the bottom of the index page, will the search engines follow these with the files above the way they are?

That depends on what the links point to. If they are external links, they aren’t covered by robots.txt. Either way, it looks like your index.php isn’t being covered by the <meta> tag.
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The php pages are from an older site (before the articlems) and they call a .shtml file. They are on the same domain.

I just don’t want the search engine to avoid following the redirects or the phps that are still on the site for any reason. I was asking if it should be something the search engine will still follow. I guess you are saying I didn’t exclude them so the search engines will follow. Is this correct?

I wondered why not use Disallow: /wp-content/ instead of all the different versions, but I was just duplicating what I saw others do.
It makes more sense that way.

I need to look at the robots test at google, it is silly, but I am afraid they would index all of the duplicate content right away if I had it wrong. It probably does not work that way, I just want to get it right the first time.

I will try to clean things up and repost again. Do the header tags I listed seem ok?

Again thank you for taking the time to help me.

I really don’t mean to be rude, but I am sure somebody should know the answer.

If I import to my online wordpress from my copy of wordpress on my local server and some of the posts are duplicated will I get two of each of these?

What would I have to do to avoid double posts. Is my only option a fresh install?

Thanks for any help you might be able to share.

Could I empty the wp_posts table and then upload, or would that break something?