Categories In A Nutshell
With hierarchies you assign posts to categories at the lowest level. Automatically, the post is also included in every category that is hierarchically listed above it.
Search engines do not like to index duplicate content. In order to avoid a duplicate content penalty, you have to do it the correct way. And, that means doing something to make your duplicate content more unique.
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With hierarchies you assign posts to categories at the lowest level. Automatically, the post is also included in every category that is hierarchically listed above it.
Categories are a way to organize posts by their topical content. Categories are anything, but flat. They are hierarchies.
Website developers can follow these rules of thumb that are designed to keep all kinds of websites out of the supplemental index. You can also use these rules of thumb to get out of the supplementals.
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Every serious website should be using a robots.txt file. WordPress blogs can especially benefit by blocking all their duplicate content from being indexed.
It is easy to search engine optimize your blog. You basically want each post to appear in Google only once. That means that you want to block subpages of your home page, or what is often called the index pages, your categories, and your archives. Your original content should be index in Google as single posts and pages.
The supplemental index is a purgatory created by Google for web pages that have been deemed to be of no value. Avoiding duplicate content is the primary factor for staying out of the supplemental index, when your pages suffer from no other issues.
Either you make the decision yourself which webpages you want in Google’s index. Or, you can let Google’s crude computer algorithms make the decision for you.
Using WordPress means that WordPress fully intends to assimulate your blog into their collective. WordPress is intent upon syndicating all of your original content in the form of feeds, pingbacks, trackbacks, and so on; all over the globe.
When your blog is targeting only one keyword, what you want to do is to get as many webpages into the Google index as possible.