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1. airheads
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Just a heads-up to y'all using WordPress with comments enabled.

   Not sure if I'm the first one to notice this (I sure couldn't find any discussions on this when I searched), but WordPress has an unaddressed duplicate content issue when you enable comments on your site

   In a nutshell, if you get enough comments on a given page, you'll end up with a duplicate page (bad for SEO) where the continuing comments are the only fresh content

   I will be looking for a solution for this in the next couple of days, but if you know how to address this, drop a line below

2. James
   Happiness Engineer
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Go to Settings/Discussion in your admin panel and uncheck "Break comments into pages."

3. airheads
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thank you for your reply; I actually thought of that.

   Unfortunately that is bad for SEO for entirely different reason - endless page length slows down the loading speed.

   Granted, nowhere near as bad as duplicate content.

   Given a choice of non-stellar-but-not-that-bad-either workaround and no solution whatoever, changing that setting is actually a good idea

   Thank you!

4. James
   Happiness Engineer
   Posted 1 year ago #

   You're welcome!

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