Double content

I’d also be interested in a solution to this. Duplicate content is a big seo no no.

Hi,

This is the default WordPress behaviour for custom post types.

Since you aren’t linking to those urls via /recipe/name, search engines won’t know of their existence and so won’t be indexing them.

We found out about this because they are being indexed by search engines ?? Any idea how we can stop that from happening then?

xLessax – are you using a 3rd party plugin to generate a Sitemap.xml file? If so, you should tell it to exclude /recipes/* folder. You could also add ‘noindex, follow’ to your robots file (see https://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/duplicate-content ).

Using the GetMeCooking plugin and WordPress will not present duplicate content to search engines. An example of the indexing generated by Google for the blog https://www.mydailymorsel.com is:
https://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=site:www.mydailymorsel.com+recipe&oq=site:www.mydailymorsel.com+recipe&gs_l=hp.3…1837.8767.1.8911.20.20.0.0.0.0.73.833.20.20.0.les%3B..0.0…1c.1.2.hp._WSfJFT-T0w&psj=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42080656,d.d2k&fp=8ec4270eec57e3fe&biw=1280&bih=685

We take SEO very seriously at GetMeCooking – in fact we were the first recipe plugin to use the Schema.org recipe format (see https://www.getmecooking.com/article/why-are-search-engines-being-slow-to-roll-out-their-recipe-search-functionality) and I discussed SEO as part of the presentations that I did at the Food Blogger Connect conferences (the largest Food Blogging Conference in Europe) in London in 2011 and 2012 (https://www.getmecooking.com/blog/food-blogger-connect-2011-presenting-is-fun and https://www.getmecooking.com/article/food-blogger-connect-2012-we-came-we-saw-we-presented-again).

Also remember that all upgrades and technical support for the plugin (free and premium versions) is free, so whenever we improve the SEO and performance of the plugin, you will get the updates for free.

The free version of the plugin contains all the SEO and SEM aspects (e.g. Scheme.org recipe), with the exception of additional functionality (e.g. the recipe index and recently added recipes) which will automatically generate and present additional internal links within your blog (good for SEO), as well as be very useful for your visitors.

Please click on ‘Search Engine Optimisation’ https://www.getmecooking.com/wordpress-recipe-plugin for more information.

You can also add your blog to our food blog directory https://www.getmecooking.com/blog-directory which is free – and we don’t use ‘nofollow’ so you will get a valid reference (e.g. ‘Google juice’) for the link.