Blog content on homepage - Dupe Content Penalty?
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Hi All,
I am working on a website which has a blog at domain.com/blog/
On the homepage they are currently looping the latest 5 blog posts in a 'Latest News' tab.
Is this therefore classed as dupe content, and would this be penalized by Google?
Should I recommend they use the excerpts instead of full articles and simply loop the excerpts on the homepage?
The website is built on WordPress.
Thanks,
Woody
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I discovered recently that you can control the blog page appearance in your profile settings, and view just snippets if you'd like for the SEOmoz and YOUmoz blog pages. I prefer the snippets myself. I haven't gone geeky and looked at how it's presented to the bots.
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Right.
Also, the short snippets will be easy for visitors to scan and select what they would like to read. If you have an active blog this might be a good option.
The SEOMoz blog homepage is an example. The posts are so very rich and lengthy and that makes the blog homepage really really really long. Is that good or not?
If a person visits that page once a week it can take a lot of scrolling to pick the items that he wants to read. Now, it surely is impressive and that might attract links but is not user friendly.
Which is best?
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There is no way you will be penalised. You would however potentially confuse search engines as to who the content originator is and delay the ranking for the intended page. So as EGOL says it's best to use short snippets on the home page that lead to the full blog post.
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agreed
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I would not publish full post content at domain.com/index.html and domain.com/blog/index.html
I would publish a short excerpt on domain.com/index.html
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