Big SEO Problem For Bloggers Who Use The Democracy Plugin For Wordpress

by Darren McLaughlin

There’s a big SEO problem concerning the Democracy Plugin for Wordpress, so if you’re running this, please take a look. This issue will affect any site that runs it, and could potentially damage the website’s ability to rank well in Google.

If you aren’t sure how to look for duplicate content already, the basic idea is to use Google’s site: command and if you see the message:

In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 132 already displayed. If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.

If you do see this message, you might already have a problem, especially if the number of duplicate pages is high.

My advice is to De-activate this plugin at once until the Author patches it it. I left several messages in his blog about it, with no reply so far, but I thought everyone has a right to know just how big of an issue this might end up being.