It’s possible, but it will be considered duplicate content by the search engines.
Thank you. OK well that’s too bad. I’ll have to come up with something else.
@fishdogfish: could you explain that further? Take a site like nytimes.com or nydailynews.com . They feature articles on the homepage, or at least an excerpt, which links to the full article deeper within their sites. Would that be interpreted as duplicate content? My website is set up similarly and I don’t want any “penalties”.
Thanks,
Scott
Would that be interpreted as duplicate content?
No. As you pointed out, they have an excerpt on the front page which you click to go to the full article. This isn’t the same thing as double posting.
thisisedie,
Thanks. Would you be so kind as to take a look at mine? It’s a custom theme. The home page has excerpts, the blog page lists three blog posts per page, and you can click the titles to go to the single blog post. Please check mine at paternalcandor.com, paternalcandor.com/blog, and then any particular blog post. I didn’t set up the theme, but it almost sounds as if mine is borderline double post…
My understanding of this is that search engines such as google interpret pages.
That is to say they can recognize duplicate content: content that is found in two separate locations that are exactly the same content.
Supposedly the search engines can tell the difference between dup. con. and dynamically generated pages.
The theory is based on the fact that dynamically generated pages are generated from a single source(your post), as opposed to being separate pages with identical content.
The search engines don’t make their algorithms public information, so it’s anybody’s guess as to exactly how they differentiate between what is dup. con. and what is not.
Mmm. I see. Sounds like I’m OK, then, because my home page is aggregated from my blog, which points them right back to that, as the source, when clicked on.
Thanks for the clarity.
