wordpress dupe content

[stender]

Does wordpress get penalised in search engines for dupe content?
e.g. I have a page of content which I then include on the homepage. Doesn't it then look like I have 2 pages of the same content?

 

[jeremyc]

Hi

Does wordpress get penalised in search engines for dupe content?
e.g. I have a page of content which I then include on the homepage. Doesn't it then look like I have 2 pages of the same content?

Don't use same content on both pages. According to search engines policy, fresh content always gives more benefits.

 

[mat]

Does wordpress get penalised in search engines for dupe content?
e.g. I have a page of content which I then include on the homepage. Doesn't it then look like I have 2 pages of the same content?

It is not ideal, but it is far worse to have duplicate content from another website. Is there any reason why you cant use a different variation of content on the front page?

 

[Ashton]

If you have set that page as your homepage then the other page shouldn't exist.

The best way to avoid duplicate content on WP is to use extracts

 

[stender]

With the template I'm using you choose which widgets to show on your homepage, so for example I choose to have 3 posts from category A showing in the featured main page. I would prefer my own content on the homepage but not sure how to do that.

 

[Blossom]

You could use the canonical tag to define which page is the most important...but that might have other adverse effects :S

 

[mat]

I would prefer my own content on the homepage but not sure how to do that.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page

 

[stender]

Cheers will take a look.

 

[stender]

It sort of does the trick but.....
With the template i'm using I have 3 widgets for the homepage
1 is main header then below that I have a left main and right main which
So if I use a page as a static homepage I then lose the left and right widgets below which I want to keep and populate with posts.
Confused? I am.

 

[mat]

Have you tried it?

Normaly the page will just appear where the posts would show and leave your widgets and navigation in the normal areas...

 

[stender]

yes my widgets were for the homepage were set previously showing Page A at the top and then posts from pages B and C below.

Now I just see the Page A I created on the homepage.
I'm not explaining very clearly. THe right side widgets still display ok but not the main body widgets.

I can pm the url if it will make more sense.

 

[illtemper]

You could use a robots file to no index the dupe content pages. Or there are quite a few plugins for this purpose:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=duplicate&sort=

 

[adds.ai]

On our sites, ranking well for their niches, we ensure that only the main-page and full articles are indexed. On the main-page we 'tease' with the first 250 words to ensure we don't see any penalties on Google etc. Archives, tags etc are non-index but follow.

Hope that assists.