Business/Personal Blog Duplicate Content
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Quick Question. I am in the process of launching a new website for my IT business which will include a blog. I also want to start up my personal blog again.
I want to publish some blog posts to both my business and personal blogs but I don't want to have any duplicate content issues. I am not concerned with building the SERPs of my personal blog but I am very focused on the business blog/site.
I am looking for some ideas of how I can publish content to both sites without getting hurt by duplicate content. Again, I am not concerned with building up the placement of my personal site but I do want to have a strong personal site that helps build my name.
Any help on this would be great.
Thanks!
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Thanks guys. I was thinking about using the rel canonical tag so I think I will go that way. I would love to be able to write unique content for each blog but I know it's just not realistic with my time constraints.
Thanks again for the help.
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I think the most important factor is RELEVANCE. It'll give you good links along the time, and visit, so you can increase your Domain Authority too.
SEO work must be a long time work to be a good work. And create new relevant content is the key to open the gates of seo heaven.
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you are right but at time writing two different unique pieces of content takes too much time my suggestion was considering the time factor!
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I assume in your bussiness blog you're going to post only content about your bussiness and in your personal blog, bussiness post and maybe personal interests.
In my opinion, create different RELEVANT content is always the best option, because Google loves relevant content.
If you want only post one time and put it on both blogs, use the rel canonical atribute to explain google the most important blog, but i don't think this is a good option.
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I thought of it too but i don't think this will be a friendly option as he said some of the posts should be on both sites not all! and using RSS for some posts might need alteration in the business blog
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Or try RSS into your personal site:-)
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Ok, this is find there are two ways of doing it see what sounds easy to you…
- Why not create two content on the same topic (re warding) the concept of the blog post is same but they will not be duplicated. Personally if you ask me I will not prefer this way as it’s quite lousy…
- The other way is smarter way… As you are not focused on your personal blog for SERPs so update the same content on both blog but on your personal blog set the canonical URL of your business blog (post URL) and this way Google get to know that what the original version of the content is and will index and act accordingly.
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