Handling duplicate content in Blogs
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Many wordpress themes like mine have a homepage where the last 3 to 4 posts are displayed on the frontpage. Each post also has its own url where the post are shown seperately. How do I avoid beeing seen as duplicate content by Google?
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Yes, as boomajoom says. I did that a year ago to a blog and it stopped google showing the front page in results rather than the individual pages. In addition, it gets you an extra pageview, lowers the bounce rate. It proves the reader really wanted to read the full page
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Change your settings to just display teasers or excerpts on the home page.
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