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

by Charles Washington
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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?
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author Charles Washington
    So google wont say "Hey, this guy has the same content on two pages. Let's rank him low because of this."
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    • Profile picture of the author 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.
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      • Profile picture of the author 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
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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    • Profile picture of the author 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 View Post

      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.
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