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Eliminate Duplicate Content:
Canonical URL Fixer Plugin.

If you are monetizing your blog, or just want lots of traffic, you need to organize your Wordpress templates so that search engines give you the highest possible rank. We all know that one of the things you must avoid is duplicate content. But did you know that Google may think you have duplicate content even though you don’t?

Remember I wrote that about a month ago? Maybe you wanted to fix the problem, but you didn’t like adding a hunk of code to your header? Well, if you didn’t add the code, your posts may still load with both an address like this “http://mydomain.com/mypost ” and “http://mydomain.com/mypost/”.

Google thinks those are two different pages with the same content. This can hurt your page rank; so it’s best to fix it.

Well, I’ve made adding the code easier: I wrote a plugin! My main motivation was that I got tired of having to scroll past the several lines of code when editing my header file.

Now, to insert the code to fix this up, do this:

Download Canonical URL Fixer . Unzip, place in your plugin folder, activate. (Nothing happens yet.)
Open your Header.php file for your theme. Ordinarily, the first line says this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>

Stick one line ahead of that line so the top of the file now looks like this:

<?php if(function_exists('makeURLCanonical')){ makeURLCanonical();} ?><br/> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><br/> ?>
Tell your friends about the plugin. Make sure you mention they can get the plugin here, and tell them the talented Sebastian identified the problem and came up with the fix.

It’s just a simple plugin, and one line of code. But, it will eliminate this particular type of duplicate content and should help your page rank (which will mean more money in the long run.)

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Eliminate Duplicate Content: Canonical URL Fixer Plugin. was posted on October 8, 2007 - Filed Under My Plugins |