You can fix this problem in WordPress though using one or both simple methods listed below. I currently prefer the second method which does not rely on a plug-in or on search engines actually following NOINDEX rules.

WordPress Plug-in

Over on WPSEO.com there is a plug-in for WordPress that unlike my example below, doesn't change the display of your blog content at all, but instead informs search engines on where to find your content, blocking them from all other places it might be repeated.

"DupPrevent Plugin controls NOINDEX meta tags to prevent duplicate content penalty. Additionally the plugin includes robots.txt file to disallow search engines to spider feeds, trackbacks and the wp- directories."

Installation

1. Download DupPrevent.zip.
2. Extract dup-prevent.php and robots.txt from the DupPrevent.zip.
3. Upload dup-prevent.php to your wp-content/plugins directory and activate it.
4. Upload robots.txt to your site’s root directory. You should be able to see the file by going to http://yoursite.com/robots.txt

The plugin is for WordPress 2.0 and higher. No word yet on if it also works with the upcoming WordPress 2.1.

Template Code Changes

One of the best tips I ever got from Jaimie Sirovich of SEO Egghead was to make sure that the full text of my posts only appeared on the index page and when looking at the single post, and making sure everything else was no more than an excerpt. Excerpts are short summaries of posts and are much less likely to cause any negative search engine effects, thus allowing your single posts to rank higher on search engines like Yahoo and Google.

Here is how I did it:
Take the below code and put it in your theme's index.php file replacing something that will probably look like:

With this:

This basically says, if we are on the home page, single post, single page, or search, show the full content, otherwise only show an excerpt. Some people like Jaimie Sirovich came up with their own PHP code to control how long the excerpts are, but I used the built-in WordPress function, and I recommend you do as well.

Advertising Services

I have had some great success with Text-Link-Ads, though they only seem to really work on sites that are PR6 and above. You could still try them out though and see if in 2-3 months they start bringing in any money.

Adsense of course is ugly, and a bit annoying, but its easy to set up and does make some decent money if you make the colours look like your site, and set it up so the colours randomly shift slightly, thus drawing attention to the ad, and fighting ad blindness a bit.

You could also get an Amazon Affiliates account, and promote some great books that are already out. Every book sold off your site would make you a few pennies, but eventually it can add up to a few dollars a month. I wouldn't make it a primary focus, but it might be something worth investigating.

And then really, once you have Text-Link-Ads, Adsense, and Amazon Affiliates, its all about getting more links to your blog, and more traffic. Get that page rank to go up to 6 in the next update, and you should be able to bring in around $100+ a month just from Text-Link-Ads.

In this tutorial, you will be introduced to one of the simplest and most popular scripting languages in existence today, namely, PHP. You'll begin to learn some of what PHP can do for you, and be able to write some simple scripts.

So What's This PHP Thing, Anyway?

Thought you'd never ask. PHP is a recursive acronym standing for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. It actually once stood for Personal Home Pages, but the developers apparently decided it could be used for more than that.

What good is PHP, though? PHP is mostly used to develop web sites. In fact, PHP is one of the only languages that was specifically created for this purpose. Most other languages, including Perl, Python, and Ruby, require some web framework to enable developers to use those languages for web development. However, since PHP was specifically written for the web, it has a lot of useful features that come in handy for web development.

One of the major criticisms against PHP is that it is neither powerful nor scalable enough for writing larger web applications. However, with more businesses beginning to use PHP, and with PHP5 including more features common in such popular languages as Java, these criticisms are gradually being nullified. In addition, with PHP's shallow learning curve and simplicity in comparison with other languages, it is a natural choice for most web sites. Today, over 18,000,000 web sites are using PHP according to Wikipedia.

First Difference

Firstly, you have to understand that an id is supposed to only be used once on a page, while classes can be used multiple times. Usually when programming a page, I use ids for main elements like the header, footer, content area, among other things, while classes are used for items I know are going to repeat like having multiple news stories on a page.

Second Difference

Another important difference, and one that you might not come across, but can be frustrating if it happens to you, is that ids have priority over classes.

Say you have something like this:

You will get:
Some black text to show off the example
Some red text via the class
Black Text Again

What happened? Well, in the first line, the id made sure the text became black, in the second line, the class made sure the text became red, and in the last line, the id which shouldn't have been used again, still was considered the priority, thus showing black text once again. *remember, ids are only to be used once on a page*

Step One

Open up the image in to a new document. In my opinion it is best to work in full screen mode so hit F on the keyboard.

Step Two

Now we have the document open and in full screen mode we want to get the black and white adjustment layer open. To do this go to Image -> Adjustments -> Black and White, or click on the layer adjustment icon in the layers pallet and select Black and White.

Step Three

Now the Black and White dialog box should be open. This is a new feature in Photoshop CS3 and is very welcome in my eyes. The Black and White dialog box looks like this.

This tutorial is aimed at anyone wanting to get familiar with Adobe Illustrator CS2 but having trouble creating gradients, especially inside of text objects.

Step One: Document Set-up

To start off create a new document by using File -> New (or Ctrl+N). The size that we are using for this tutorial is 350px by 100px.

Step Two: Typing

Now that we have the document open and the right size select the type tool (press T on the keyboard.)

Drag an area large enough for us to type tutorials in a fairly large font.

Step Three

Now that we have the type bounding box double click inside of this. Type the name of the first word that you want to use; in this case we are typing "tutorial".

Step Four

We have now written the text tutorial but the font is not the font that we want or the font size that we want. Drag over the text that we have wrote till it all is selected.

Page 2 is an advertisement, head on to page three to continue the tutorial...

Domain Name Service or Domain Name Server is a program running on a server (specialized computer) that automatically translates domain names from english like "http://www.google.ca/" into their correct TCP/IP addresses, like 64.233.161.104. Try entering 64.223.161.104 into your address bar of your web browser, and you will see that it brings you to Google.

Since it would be hard for us to remember those numbers, and computers only understand numbers, they need computers to translate between our easier to remember text, and the numerical address of the server the website is hosted on.

What is OpenDNS?

OpenDNS is a free service, that converts the names we type in to the websites we want to visit. What is great about OpenDNS is that it is fast because they use more than one computer to convert the domain names, and can help to protect you from certain sites that might be trying to trick you like phishing sites that try to get your bank information or passwords.

Why I changed to OpenDNS

Recently, my Internet Service Provider, Rogers Cable, had a problem. I could load some sites, but not others. I quickly realized that it was a DNS problem. One of their servers that do the conversions were down, blocking my access to many sites.

Someone on a forum mentioned that I should switch to OpenDNS a service that has been around for a while, and because it is distributed over many servers across the USA, it is fast, and reliable.

How to change to OpenDNS

The basic idea is to change your DNS settings to use OpenDNS rather than grab the settings from your Internet Service Provider.

The DNS server addresses for OpenDNS are:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

OpenDNS has already created tutorials that cover all the popular Operating Systems like Windows XP, Windows 2000, Mac OS X, and even Linux.