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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  • 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.
  • 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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    Gaz Cooper
    Amz Training Academy

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    • 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?
    • Banned
      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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  • 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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  • 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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    • When this is done, it creates 5 different post/pages, right? What are the urls of those posts?

  • Banned
    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.
  • 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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    • Banned
      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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