Canonicalization – WordPress, google and SEO optimization

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    justinbianchi · Member ·

    Hi:

    I am discovering that my page ranking on Google jumps up and down (I’ve been blogging for two years). For about three onths, my page ranking was stable, and slowly improved over time.

    Two weeks ago my page ranking tanked.

    I posted a question on Google’s forum and I am told I have a lot of duplicate content on my wordpress blog site.

    a couple of things:

    1) my original site is http://kingofages.wordpress.com
    2) I acquired kingofages.com and worpdress redirects my content.
    3) Someone has noted that my webpages are duplicated, and I have seen this confuse the living daylights out of google.
    4) at times, google, does not list the canonical web page of my blog posts on their page ranking.
    5) this confusion has caused my web traffic to tank, after it spiked and peaked a month ago.

    I have no idea why this is happening, since I don’t change or manipulate the manner in which my webpages are indexed on WP.

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    Since this is likely something only staff can address, I’ve tagged this for their attention.

    You are not alone in this and I’ve got Drupal, Joomla! and self-hosted wordpress.COM sites that all took a hit when Google unleashed the angry Panda/Farmer on the unsuspecting webbing public.

    I’ve adjusted the robots.txt file on a couple of sites as a test disallowing search engines into tags, categories and archives pages and now Google are whining that I’m blocking them and they are still whining about all those page types being duplicate content. I could go on a serious rant right about now.

    A friend whose web company manages 70 websites is pulling their hair out as there does not seem to be anyway to please the g00g. They have followed all their guidelines and done everything they can and the g00g is still whining at them.

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    That should be “…self-hosted wordpress.ORG sites…”

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    We provide permanent redirects from your old WordPress.com domain to your new mapped domain. This is what Google needs to change their search results, and we unfortunately have no control beyond that point. It’s entirely up to Google to make the change.

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    timethief · Member ·

    @clericus17fp0glx
    Just in case you have not read this recent article I’m posting the link for you to > Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Raising awareness of cross-domain URL selections
    See also > Cross-domain URL selection

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