How To Deal With Internal Duplicate Content?

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I have a long post that I want to post on my blog. It is close to 5000 words long.

It is sort of a comprehensive coverage of a certain topic.

There are also subtopics within that post. Therefore, I can break that long post into 3-4 subposts and post those as well under different titles in my blog.

But, the content for these posts would be the same as those respective sections in the main long post.

Won't this cause duplicate content issues?

How do I deal with this?

(I know there are people doing this. I have seen a few people mention they were doing this. It was such a long time ago. I can't find where I read that. )
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  • Profile picture of the author NicheMagic
    If you are using Wordpress there is a plugin you can get that will stop dup content from being published. ( to search engines )

    I can't remember of the top of my head ( i'll try search ) but you can search google as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gaz Cooper
    That will indeed be considered duplicate content and could possibly damage your site if you put the same content on different pages of your own site.

    Since its so long, why not make 5 1000 word posts and then link the first post to the 2nd Post to the 3rd post and so on. People dont like to read such a long post on a single page anyway.

    That is what I would do

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    Originally Posted by James Pierson View Post

    I have a long post that I want to post on my blog. It is close to 5000 words long.

    It is sort of a comprehensive coverage of a certain topic.

    There are also subtopics within that post. Therefore, I can break that long post into 3-4 subposts and post those as well under different titles in my blog.

    But, the content for these posts would be the same as those respective sections in the main long post.

    Won't this cause duplicate content issues?

    How do I deal with this?

    (I know there are people doing this. I have seen a few people mention they were doing this. It was such a long time ago. I can't find where I read that. )
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    • Profile picture of the author James Pierson
      I want it to be indexed on search engines. There is no point in avoiding that.

      Isn't there any way I can link from the subposts to the main long post in the body or something else?
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    • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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      Originally Posted by GazCooperOnline View Post

      That will indeed be considered duplicate content and could possibly damage your site if you put the same content on different pages of your own site.

      Since its so long, why not make 5 1000 word posts and then link the first post to the 2nd Post to the 3rd post and so on. People dont like to read such a long post on a single page anyway.
      I completely agree with this. I wouldn't even be remotely interested in reading a 5,000 word blog post, but if it were interesting enough, I might read all five 1,000 word posts.
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      • Profile picture of the author Kay King
        Usually, when people ask about duplicate content - they are interpreting the term incorrectly for online use.

        What you are proposing is the DEFINITION of duplicate content - putting the same info on more than one page of a site. Don't do it. If you feel you must have one page that lists all five topics - make it a synopsis with totally original text.

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        • Profile picture of the author James Pierson
          Ok. Understood. There is no way I can do that.

          Here is what I will do: Either break it up into smaller posts or just rewrite it when I am report a smaller version in a subpost.

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          Another question:

          If, when writing a post, I have to quote a certain section from another post(from my own site), then would that be duplicate content? (even if it is within quotes tag)

          Eg: I am writing a 1500 word post about a topic. Let's say I want to quote a 300 word part of another post(1000 words) within this current post using the 'quotes' tag.

          Would that still be considered duplicate content even if:
          • It is clear that I am only quoting for explanation or reference and not trying to 'game' the search engines.
          • That it is just 300 words out of 1500 words. (What percentage would be best?)
          • That it is within the 'quotes' tag
          • I am linking back to my original post from where I quote


          I have seen more than a few examples of this. Curious to know how it would work.
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          • Profile picture of the author Kay King
            It might be. 300 words is not insiginificant. Why takes the chance? Why not just link to the article with an interior link instead of repeating part of it?

            It might work - it might not. It's not something I would do as I stay well within the lines when it comes to SEO, adsense, etc. Would rather skip a bright idea or two than have to stop and clean up the mess if the site gets slapped.

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          • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
            Originally Posted by James Pierson View Post

            Ok. Understood.
            No, you didn't. You are still trying to find a "workaround"... :rolleyes:

            The same text more than once on the same website = duplicate content. Quoted or not.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lyanna
    Don't have one main long post, just use different posts. Why would you need one main long post anyway? Most visitors will not read 5,000 words. It would be better as 10 posts of 500 words each.

    main keyword/main topic - one post
    secondary keywords/subtopics - the nine other posts
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    Yes, having one long post and the same content in shorter posts = duplicate content. You don't want to do that!

    Don't believe everything you read on the net - idiots are posting idiotic methods...

    If you find the post too long - just break it into "pages": there is a little known (not advertised) quicktag to do it.

    Write your post and before publishing go to the HTML editor (not the Visual!!!) and insert this where you want to break the text:
    <!--nextpage-->

    When in single post view, you will see the first part (up till where you put the first <!--nextpage--> tag) and numbers at the bottom:
    Pages: 1 2 3 4 5
    each number being a clickable link.

    Also, use h3 tags for the (sub)title of the subtopics...
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    • Profile picture of the author katied772
      When this is done, it creates 5 different post/pages, right? What are the urls of those posts?

      Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

      Yes, having one long post and the same content in shorter posts = duplicate content. You don't want to do that!

      Don't believe everything you read on the net - idiots are posting idiotic methods...

      If you find the post too long - just break it into "pages": there is a little known (not advertised) quicktag to do it.

      Write your post and before publishing go to the HTML editor (not the Visual!!!) and insert this where you want to break the text:
      <!--nextpage-->

      When in single post view, you will see the first part (up till where you put the first <!--nextpage--> tag) and numbers at the bottom:
      Pages: 1 2 3 4 5
      each number being a clickable link.

      Also, use h3 tags for the (sub)title of the subtopics...
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    300 words is a small article. There's no reason to do it. Just link to the section you want to quote. Google counts it as duplicate content whether it's in quotes or not.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    When this is done, it creates 5 different post/pages, right?
    Wrong
    It is ONE post just broken into "pieces":

    example.com/YOUR_CUSTOM_POST_PERMALINK
    example.com/YOUR_CUSTOM_POST_PERMALINK/2
    example.com/YOUR_CUSTOM_POST_PERMALINK/3...
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Please excuse my butting in to the thread briefly with a not-too-relevant post just to record my very great surprise at finding a thread with the words "duplicate content" in the title that actually IS about duplicate content! Apologies for the interruption but I don't remember that happening yet, this year. "There never were such days".
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