Firstly, can I note that there is no real 'Duplicate Content Penalty' but there are duplicate content filters. According to Google penalties only apply to people who are intentionally adding content to the internet to game the SE algorithms. Us ordinary folks need not worry. However, having duplicated content on your website is not such a good idea. SEs are pretty good at sorting out the content that we webmasters want the world to see and we often work to improve things by 'shaping' the SE bot traffic through our websites and blogs.
I was thinking though, wouldn't it be better if rather than having to say which classes of content we wanted indexed in advance by using tools such as All In One SEOn on our WordPress blogs we could choose which content we wanted Google, Bing or Yahoo! to index more directly?
Well, I went on a hunt and found out about the Canonical URL tag introduced by Google a while back and recognised by Yahoo! and Bing. What this does is to tell SEs that content tagged as 'canonical' will be the content that is indexed and shown to searchers. So, in effect if all our pages and posts, as added by us to our sites were tagged as canonical we'd not need to worry about tag pages, archives or category list pages.
Hmmm… this should have a plugin!
Well, it does!
Have a look at Yoast Tweaking Websites blog where you can download a plugin to manage your content.
This plugin will not solve all the duplicate content issues that Wordpress throws up but it'll help in a way that is unobtrusive and easy.
Filed under Blog Setups, Blogging Tools, Install WordPress by on Mar 25th, 2010. Comment. 
Over the years I have tried and used a load of WordPress installers. Most of these products ahve not been very good. The best I found for a long time was from Mass Automation, WPInstaller, a product still being sold. I have found an alternative and at very low cost. Here it is: Desktop WordPress Mass Blog Installer & Manager This tool does a fine job of installing WordPress along with your choices of themes and plugins both of which can be activated automatically.
I really liked that I could add up to 10 pages to the site at setup so that I can have all my 'admin pages': About, Privacy, Disclaimers etc all ready to go saving quite a lot of time. In addition I can set up the inital post, the blogroll, categories etc etc.
The tool also functions as a WordPress blog manager and enables the webmaster to update versions, themes and plugins from the desktop and to multiple sites in one go.
If this tool included a blog poster that enabled me to submit content to my blogs without logging into the site then I'd be a very happy man. However coming soon is and Article Poster and Article Creator tool within the installer. If these actually show up then this will for the current price of just $29 be an absolute steal.
Take a look for yourself, there is a demo version available from the sales site: Check this!
Filed under Blog Setups, Blogging Tools, Install WordPress, Reviews by on Mar 18th, 2010. Comment.
I came across a new Private Label Rights site the other day and I confess I signed up instantly.
I had to!
The offer was too good.
Here's the deal. Most of the time we buy PLR as a subscription and every month we get packages of PLR material to use as we choose. Cool, very useful, but there is one big problem. We only get what the proprietors of the PLR site want us to have, No choice. No option to say 'Hmmm, I need 5 articles on dog food and 3 articles on car buying'
What if that was a possibility? What if a site set up to do just that?
YumPlr was set up to offer PLR on-demand. Thousands of articles and new fresh ones every day published for members and using a site that looks like an article directory. After you sign up all yo have to do is browse or search the directory for the content you want and copy/paste the articles you choose. It is faster then me doing the same search on my own PC.
As the site is new most of the content I have been pulling down is not even published elesewhere yet. Obviously that will change over time but always there is new content each day.
Price is right too, less than $5.00 per month right now, but that is sure to change over the coming months.
Seriously, this is a handy way to get content in the odd niches for the odd projects where we do not want to pay for a writer to do a custom article and where we do not have a file of PLR content already. I'll be using YumPlr.com a lot.
Filed under Blogging Tools, Ideas and Tips, Reviews by on Jan 11th, 2010. 1 Comment.
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