what makes you beleive that providing the archives and calendar will reduce your PR, didn't Matt Cutts' statements I linked above proved just the opposite?

No not really.

"WP does suffer a bit from the fact you can get to a post from 3-4 different ways"

That is it from the Google guru. You lose PR. *A bit*.

what makes you beleive that providing the archives and calendar will reduce your PR, didn't Matt Cutts' statements I linked above proved just the opposite?

hello tt,

yep, it appears OP's _queries_ are completely resolved as they have removed their .com blog after they spreaded some FUD SEO rumors in *this particular thread*.

if this forum moderator (or some folks that having keys) decides this discussion is suitable for the off-topic forum only, then he's the one capable to hit a very well polished Move or Delete this Topic/Post buttons.

*) Matt Cutts works for the quality group in Google, specializing in search engine optimization issues. He is well known in the SEO community for enforcing the Google Webmaster Guidelines and cracking down on link spam.

[local remark: almost nothing besides naked sidebar (what would deprive a .com blog a basic navigation means and make it nearly unusable) is applicable to wordpress.com blogs.]

you know, that guy seems to be really *crazy* about SEO because he has a modRewrite rules on his own blog appending '.HTM' extension to all dynamic pages WP generates to pretend them looking like they're static ones. this seems a bit insane to me as:

Cutts also revealed some important details about the way Google handles various things. For instance, does the file extension in your URL matter? Matt’s answer: no – unless it is .exe. Otherwise, it will not affect your ranking in the slightest.

and yes, indeed, "WP does suffer a bit from the fact you can get to a post from 3-4 different ways", but according to the same Matt Cutts it's "Not too bad".

As a reminder, supplemental results aren’t something to be afraid of; I’ve got pages from my site in the supplemental results, for example. A complete software rewrite of the infrastructure for supplemental results launched in Summer o’ 2005, and the supplemental results continue to get fresher. Having urls in the supplemental results doesn’t mean that you have some sort of penalty at all; the main determinant of whether a url is in our main web index or in the supplemental index is PageRank.

while helping SE to reduce my supplemental SERPs is generally a good thing, I guess it is rather a job of their engineers (who are paid this for) to develop good filtering algorithms (we know little about) and their hardware -- it's a silicon let them work.

http://www.seoresearcher.com/how-to-make-your-wordpress-blog-duplicate-content-safe.htm

The thing about tags is that they are meta data.
Cats do not work when the info in question is removed from the context in which it was "categorised" eg in a feed.
Tags can be read and hence filtered more universally.

in my opinion, just as well Matt is a top specialist in the SEO field (and GOOG just proves it ;-), as well-structured WP Categories (aka Tags) are one of the most powerful and competitive SEO tools money can buy.

you might also take a look at the year ago discussion on "Taxonomy vs. Folksonomy (Fauxonomie)" don't forget to read a Cory Doctorow's "METACRAP" (link provided in the thread mentioned).

as for different entry links to the same content, hardly it's a problem at all. my meta/quasy blog here has got around 10 links (not including feeds/comment feeds) to same posts and category permalinks are shown first in the goog index, en empty stupid 'Navigation' page is just #2 after the "/". stats shows unmerited (regarding content) hits from SE due pretty slug permalinks.

it's also not possible to turn off archives: even at .org software it's hard to control them all, but here goog pulled out even an '/author/authorname' archive -- where did they get it?

Submit your site here on the right - http://www.submitexpress.com/ Submit it to only the top 40 search engines. And also claim your blog at Technorati and place Technorati's buttons and such on your site. And make sure to ping your blog. I ping mine at http://technorati.com/ping and http://www.pingoat.com/ And email other similar sites like yours for link exchanges on each other's blogrolls. And to get listed on search engines, try to get your blog on at least one person's blog that is already listed on Google. This way when they get indexed, your site will then be indexed.

I can turn off archives but dont want to turn off cats

Thnx

Before my blog url of my post was http://anegativecreep.wordpress.com/television/people-who-watch-big-brother/

But now it's changed too http://anegativecreep.wordpress.com/2007/08/02/people-who-watch-big-brother/ ?

And the archives are showing for me....