Duplicate content with read more option

[zaco]

Hi Warriors,

I want to put some articles on my site, basically I do put a paragraph from the article then I add the read more button which redirects to the full article that includes the paragraph that I added as a small teaser, if I have thousands of articles and I use the same approach, would Google see it as duplicate content?

Thanks

[webapex]

Just because that's a pretty standard form in blog I would assume there would be no problem.

Sometimes the Canonical tag can be used to minimize the effect of unavoidable duplication, like a primary and printable versions of an article. This tag indicates which version is the primary one.
Canonical URL Tag - The Most Important Advancement in SEO Practices Since Sitemaps | SEOmoz

[Writer Fox]

I'm not sure what you are doing. Are you posting full articles that appear elsewhere in the Internet on your site or are you just giving a link to an article on another site?

I hope it is the later.

NEVER put an article on your site that has been posted anywhere else. With the Google Panda updates, you can lower the ranking of your entire website by doing that. Everything on your site must be original content.

[zaco]

Originally Posted by Writer Fox

I'm not sure what you are doing. Are you posting full articles that appear elsewhere in the Internet on your site or are you just giving a link to an article on another site?

I hope it is the later.

NEVER put an article on your site that has been posted anywhere else. With the Google Panda updates, you can lower the ranking of your entire website by doing that. Everything on your site must be original content.

No I am not posting a full article, I have a page that links to many articles but what I want to do is put a small part of each article as a teaser so the users can read it then if they want to read the full article they will click on read more to read the full article that will include the small teaser.

[thebitbotdotcom]

Just rel="nofollow" your "Read More" link...

[zaco]

Originally Posted by thebitbotdotcom

Just rel="nofollow" your "Read More" link...

Oh no that will destroy the whole idea! I want that page to be indexed as it is a product review page, I am looking at the Canonical tags but not really sure how they work

[onSubie]

Hi

Usually the "click for more" is added by your WP template depending on the design/settings. Some templates display full posts and not just a summary with the "click for more".

Use a plug-in like All-in-one SEO and it will prevent this type of duplicate content on your site. Also tags/categories and other things that can cause duplicate content.

Mahlon

@Writer Fox: Careful with the misinformation, you'll get Alexis in this thread...

[packerfan]

So you have the full article posted on url domain/article1, domain/article2, etc

And you want to have a page called domain/reviews that have excerpts of the articles, right?

The way to do this by using content rich category pages. Unfortunately there are very few themes that let you do it right.

Thesis can do it, and I think Clickbump can do it.

Now if you all of those articles are in different categories and you want to display them on a "summary" type page, that's a little different.

Long story short, your "summary" page will get indexed (in all likelyhood).

this is exactly how blogs work, so you don't have a lot to worry about.

It helps that you'll have multiple excerpts on the page.

[JohnMcCabe]

I grew up in Minnesota and bleed Viking purple, so all this agreement with a 'packerfan' is getting annoying. But...

The cheesehead has it right.

Adding onto that, almost any theme can be made to perform that way if you are willing to invest a little time creating a child theme with some custom category templates.

As far as the dupe content thing goes, the way I'm reading things says that much depends on the amount of duplication.

Say your category page has 10 excerpts. Each of the pages linked to with a 'read more' link would have approximately 10% of the content in common with the category page. Probably not enough to worry about, presuming the reviews themselves are long enough that an excerpt is exactly that.

[rooze]

What's been said in posts #8 and #9 above is exactly right. Using excerpts to link to content is fine. Do not use the 'no-follow' tag, that isn't needed and is counter-productive.
You could use this system to gain a bigger advantage by writing a unique summary for the entire article and using that either alongside or instead of an extract. That way you're generating unique content and you may get the blog page indexed also.
I did some testing last year with what you're doing in this works great for me -

- Write an article and add it to the website
- Create a blog post (on the main website) and use an extract along with 150 or so words of unique summary text and an anchor-text link back to the main article.
- Ping the blog summary post and drop a few social media back-links to the summary but not the main article.

Then just watch how quickly your main article page gets indexed. It works great and you're sending along a little link juice from the blog post, with its SM back-links to each new article.

[zaco]

Thank you guys! already gave a thanks to each one of you as I am not a cheapo lol, I am using Joomla so I cannot use any plugins that might help to prevent that but I will use all the suggestions.

I will create a blog post that has maybe 10% of the original article content "extract" and then link back the read more or read review button to the main article , I wanted write a small summary in my own words but I have alot of content to post so that might take a while..on the long run that will create more unique content..

[Naimath]

Originally Posted by zaco

Hi Warriors,

I want to put some articles on my site, basically I do put a paragraph from the article then I add the read more button which redirects to the full article that includes the paragraph that I added as a small teaser, if I have thousands of articles and I use the same approach, would Google see it as duplicate content?

Thanks

No, I don't think this should cause you any problem. However, you might want to be sure of the amount of excerpts you put. Plus, no matter how many articles you have, if you follow the right strategy, Google would obviously treat all the articles equally.

[warriorsaroj]

I dont think that Google would have any problem with this modeus operandi. As long as you are using orginal and fresh contant Google won't do anything, but the moment you strat stealing contant from others sources google boots will get active and than they would do beyond you imgination.