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Hi,

I keep getting alert for duplicate content. It seems Wordpress is creating it through a /tag

https://www.curveball-media.co.uk/tag/cipr/

https://www.curveball-media.co.uk/tag/pr-agencies/

Something in the way we've got Wordpress set up?

@emilie-martin Thank you! I think my badly worded question was more about whether Wordpress should have a /main page as well as the / home page. If that makes sense?

Hi,

Our website is 10 years old, but I only noticed last night we had a https://curveball-media.co.uk/main page which has some badly formatted copy on.

I redirected (301) to the home page https://curveball-media.co.uk/

Then I had a slight panic that maybe this was the wrong thing to do and it should be like it was with the home page and the /main page.

Should I have left it or did I do the right thing?

I'm trying to get savvy with our homepage H1.

Is there a website which can give us information on related keywords. For example, although we don't mention 'business', we do mention 'commercial' and thus our site will come up in search for the term 'business <x><x>'.</x></x>

So in essence, there's little point keywording both 'business' and 'commercial' as to Google they are one in the same keyword.

Thanks

I'm a little perplexed and hope someone technically savvy can help.

Wordpress site.

Our page: www.curveball-media.co.uk/animation

Redirects to: www.curveball-media.co.uk/animation/#/id0

I cannot see any reason for this. No 301s, nothing.

Thank you for your response. Rather than me try and explain further (it is complicated). I've just removed the offending content from the page. Thank you for taking the time to answer.

OK, so we've lost pagerank and I think it's because of the way our site works (and we operate it).

We have a videofolio, which shows on most of our pages, showcasing our work. Over time, we have tended to unpublish these pages and created new videofolio pages to show on our home page and relevant pages.

The videofolio is a set of pages, each with a title, body text and a place to insert a link to the video, which is played through a videofolio showcase on our website (www.curveball-media.co.uk). Each is set a category, e.g. film, and when the user clicks the tab for 'film', the thumbnails pop up and the user can play the video.

We have to work it this way as it's the only way to remove the videos from showing on our home page and to show new content instead. Simply deselecting a category still allows the videos to be seen when the 'all' category is selected by the user.

Last week, I found a way of bringing back these unpublished pages by removing the 'all' tab from the videofolio. Then I turned each one into a blog like structure instead. Essentially, instead of the video link being played through the videofolio, we deselected a category (e.g. animation, film etc) and left the page floating. The only way you can access it without being attached to a videofolio category is through the direct link.

By turning off the 'all' category and deselecting the page from any other categories, we were able to properly SEO these pages.

NB: If they are created for use with the videofolio, you can have only extremely limited body text and no H2, as this is the text that appears when you hover over the video thumbnail. That's just the nature of the template.

What I didn't anticipate is that now the code on the home page shows all these now (un)published pages and their corresponding H2 tags. Without a category selected, there is no way to get to these pages unless I create a direct link. I plan to do this through a blog post.

In the home page code, the entire videofolio page shows, including the body text and link to the video. **This text doesn't show on the home page though, i.e. the user never sees this text. **

1. Is it an issue to have so many similar H2 tags on the homepage?

2. Is it an issue that the code has text which is essentially invisible on the home page?

3. Is it an issue that the content is not linked to through the home page visibly?

Thanks!