I love wordpress I really do it makes it really easy to publish, however the wordpress developers really need some help sometimes. It seems when there is a choice to make things SE friendly more often than not they make worst choice possible
Case and point lets use one of my favorite test subjects Matt Cutts. Lets take a look at this SERP for example.
The one that concerns me the bottom one
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/harry-...hoo-logo/feed/
For every post wordpress generates a comment feed url. Why does this matter? Well Google will index these feed URLs and up until a day or two ago these would be labeled supplemental. From Googles perspective it makes sense, because comment feeds are distinct URLs and 99% of the time dont get links. Why is that a problem well without a critical mass of authority/trust, sites having a large amount of supplemental pages is considered a negative indicator and a gets a subsequent ranking drop/filter.
To make things worse theres no easy way to get into
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