Why You Must Avoid Posting Under Multiple Categories In Your Blog
This must be the most easily committed mistake by most of the bloggers around the globe, choosing multiple categories for the content to be filed under while publishing an article.
We do not realize the possible consequence of doing this, sometimes if you do it frequently it might get your blog to be penalized. So why it might lead to such a threat? reason is when you post an content and choose multiple categories for it to go under, it means same post exists in multiple locations of your blog.
For example if you are making a post with “how to run your blog” and including it under two categories like “BLOG TIPS” and “BLOG RESOURCES” when search engines crawl through this two categories and it find the same content in two locations then it considers one of it to be a duplicate content.
We normally think that duplicate content will lead your site to be penalized only when the same content is present in different domains but this assumption is wrong, if search engines keep find that similar contents are present in multiple locations in the same site then it will treat it as a duplicate content too and if it finds the case to be same for multiple instances then there is a high possibility that your blog will be penalized for duplicate content and drop your rankings in search engines. When it happens you might think you did nothing wrong, you wrote your own contents but still when don’t use your own written contents properly it might still prove to be threat for penalization.
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Thank you so much for this post! I did a post a few weeks back and because it included quite a few different topics, I actually posted it under different categories. I am on my way now to change it.
I found your blog from a link in one of Jackie Lee’s posts and I am really glad I clicked through to your blog. I still sometimes have trouble in working/understand WordPress and I see that I will be able to find answers here on your blog to many of the questions I still have.
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That’s really nice to know, feel free to contact me through contact form in need help section, if you need any personal assistance.
Happy blogging.
This post really helped me a lot!! Actually I was going on doing this mistake and didn’t realized the effect!!I’ll rectify it and thanks so much.All credit goes to you and your wonderful post.
Hope to get lot more in through your available and upcoming posts!
I’m re-organizing my website and what to use multiple categories for posts. I understand how multiple categories affect SEO, but there has to be a way because multiple categories make blogs better. I’m thinking about making a robot.txt file that disallows robots from indexing certain categories… What do you think?
disallowing indexing of certain categories would be a good idea, if you intend to use multiple categories for your posts, but you need to certain which categories you don’t want to be indexed and stick to it, otherwise there is a possibility some posts of yours might not get indexed.
So plan well ahead and stick to your plan that should do the trick
Good luck and best regards
Are you sure about this – post content is already duplicated on blogs – once under the actual post – and again in the category ….
adding no-index to your tags and categories will help to fight the problem of the kind of duplicate issue you just mentioned.
I know now that duplicate content can reduce website’s ranking. thx for your information.