Wordpress SEO Question: Is category and post page dupe content?

[Charles Washington]

On my site I have a static page. Hen, I have a page where all my blog posts go. The category (single category) displays the same posts as the blog page in a different page www.....com/category/site-example

Does that count as having the same content on 2 pages of your site, and will you get penalized for it?

[dburk]

Hi Charles,

Yes, it is duplicate content and there is no penalty, you will simply see only one of those duplicate pages listed, the other usually won't.

[Charles Washington]

So google wont say "Hey, this guy has the same content on two pages. Let's rank him low because of this."

[dburk]

No, they just filter out the duplicate content.

The only downside is that your internal link structure isn't benefiting you as much as it could be.

[banker0679]

archives....tag pages....category pages..and comment pages are all duplicate content

you should have a nofollow on these links otherwise you'll see your tag, archive, category, or comment pages indexed instead of the actual post page

Google will pick 1, and my preference is the post link

[bgmacaw]

No, because it's a feature of WordPress that Google's algorithm knows and understands well. If your intent isn't deceptive, this kind of duplicate content isn't a significant problem. The only problem might be in having an less than optimal landing page for search visitors should the category or tag page be the one Google results show for a particular keyword.

[banker0679]

how do you know this is a feature that Google's Algo knows and understands?

I would love to see information on this from any article on the web.

If Google understands this then why do they index the other pages instead of the actual blog post?

Google uses 'other parameters' to determine which page to use which has nothing to do with Wordpress

Originally Posted by bgmacaw

No, because it's a feature of WordPress that Google's algorithm knows and understands well. If your intent isn't deceptive, this kind of duplicate content isn't a significant problem. The only problem might be in having an less than optimal landing page for search visitors should the category or tag page be the one Google results show for a particular keyword.

[bgmacaw]

Originally Posted by banker0679

how do you know this is a feature that Google's Algo knows and understands?

From observation. Try it sometime rather than reading sales copy on somebody's SEO blog.

[banker0679]

thanks for providing the resources to your claims

Google doesn't accomodate 'wordpress' or other platforms

here are the reasons why Google would pick a 'tag page' or other pages over the actual blog post link

No Follow Attribute

it has NOTHING to do with Wordpress

Originally Posted by bgmacaw

From observation. Try it sometime rather than reading sales copy on somebody's SEO blog.