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doing a little seo for wordpress this morning.

for my sites, duplicate content has become a large seo problem.  i am fixing it today.

In an attempt to eliminate duplicate content from this and other wordpress blogs i maintain, I have done the following:

• made a few changes to my robots.txt - no more /category, year/month archive or /page crawling
• installed an html sitemap plugin
• installed a plugin that adds the trailing slash to permalink requests
• installed a plugin that manages meta description tags

in an attempt to clean up my dirty meta descriptions, i installed head meta description plugin

i was already doing

• spiffy title tags:

<title><?php if (is_home()) { ?><?php bloginfo('name'); ?><?php } else { ?><?php wp_title(''); ?> &raquo; <?php bloginfo('name'); ?><?php } ?></title> 

• google sitemaps generator (actually this is the link for the new beta which i haven't played with yet)
• my permalink slug is almost always

  /%postname%/

and this isn't necessarily seo, but i am using dofollow on a few blogs (including this one)

all this plus the regular advice regarding proper markup and decent content and not breaking the rules should increase my blogs' organic traffic

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