Maximize Crawlability of WordPress Blogs and Prevent Duplicate Content - More WordPress Crawling Issue Solutions

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For issue #3:

Go to Dashboard-Settings-Reading, and then in the front page displays, select "A Static Page." This will give a static home page for WordPress.

For issue #8:

Consult with your hosting provider and developer to make sure all of those "not found" pages will give a 404 header status and not 200 (OK). An adjustment of the .htaccess file may be needed.

For issue #9:

Use the Google XML Sitemaps Plugin; you can download this at: http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home/ . This will automatically create an XML sitemap which you can submit to Google webmaster tools.

You can create a new page in WordPress called "Sitemap" containing all the links pointing to your post and important pages in your blog. This will ensure all important posts and pages will be crawlable in Google.

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