Will we be penalised for duplicate content on a sub-domain?
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Hi there,
I run a WordPress blog and I use [community platform] Discourse for commenting. When we publish a post to Wordpress, a duplicate of that post is pushed to a topic on Discourse, which is on a sub-domain.
Eg: The original post and the duplicated post.
Will we be penalised for duplicating our own content on a subdomain? If so, other than using an excerpt, what are our options?
Thanks!
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Hi,
I would try to avoid duplicate content as much as I can but, there is no such a thing as "duplicate content" penalty unless all of your content is simply copied from elsewhere. I would try and use rel=canonical tags to tell Google that this piece of content is the original one.
Please watch this WB Friday: https://moz.com/blog/guest-blogging-content-licensing-without-duplicate-content-issues-whiteboard-friday
Thanks,
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Hi,
I would always stay away from duplicate content. My choice would be to post a link to the artikel on the community subdomain and an introduction with unique content. This way the link gives some internal linkjuice to the post.
Good luck!
Tymen
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