External links are always a dilemma as a user that follows an external link using a simple click will leave your site. Can the visitors know what is an internal link and an external link? Do your visitors know that they’re leaving the site and when they do - will they come back?
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Wordpress also has “404 not found” issues. In the last post we discussed “Drupal SEO : Verifying 404 Not-Found/Forbidden headers are not OK and custom 404 pages” but it seems that this problem persists across CMSes, like Wordpress, that fail to return the right “404 not found” header for a PHP CGI sites. I’ve checked the latest version [...]

Even if you do have the right Wordpress permalink structure, Wordpress wrongly treats a path with or without a trailing backslash the same way, although some search engines, like Google, see that as duplicate content. So it’s not only that Wordpress sets your blog installation to an awful default query based start, which you can fix by "Changing [...]

Many Wordpress bloggers that start off  blogging without much knowledge of SEO, soon realize realize that the Wordpress permalink structure they chose wasn’t well-optimized for search-engines. Although being aware of the problem, some chose to stick to the old structure, since they fear that migrating to a new structure will cause loss of page rank and trackback/links [...]

Google really doesn’t like content duplication on sites and so it is advisable to prevent the Google crawler from reaching the same content on your site from more than one url. Since Wordpress does offer many ways of reaching your content, you should block certain URL and URL paths by defining the right robots.txt.
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