Title: duplicated content
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# duplicated content

 *  [madinternetscientist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madinternetscientist/)
 * (@madinternetscientist)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicated-content/)
 * ok, so I put nofollow on Categories:, Archives: and rss for duplicated content
   reasons.
 * But what happens when my post is off of the homepage? Google will not see it 
   anymore because of the nofollow it had before to keep it from having duplicated
   content.
 * One can not have a post on the homepage that has the same exact as the Categories:
   and Archives:.
 * so what should i do once the content is off the homepage?

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 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicated-content/#post-830706)
 * you should shitcan the nofollows.
 * Millions of wordpress blogs get indexed by google just fine that dont use nofollow
   for anything, and theyre not penalized for duplicate content.
 * Googlebot is far more intelligent than that.
 *  [andreas-h](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andreas-h/)
 * (@andreas-h)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicated-content/#post-830713)
 * **“Googlebot is far more intelligent than that”**
 * Exactly, just look at the very basics for duplicate content. Googlebot finds 
   something it’s seen before, then it goes back and try to sort out whose the original
   author and origin is and penelise the duplicate…sort of! 😉
 * So, even If you have the exact same “version” of your post published first on
   your index page, then in some of your categorys and then the archive and….so 
   on and so on, it still created by the “same author”, on the same server and AT
   THE SAME TIME…Google dont give a shit about that…
 * …at least that’s what I think. Duplicate Content issues with wordpress is overhyped!
 * But I’m no expert so please correct me if I’m wrong! 🙂
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicated-content/#post-830716)
 * No, its even more than that. Case in point, the most popular single post on my
   blog:
 * [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=wp-chunk&btnG=Google+Search](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=wp-chunk&btnG=Google+Search)
 * I dont use ANY nofollow crap. Google knows right where to go, and doesnt use 
   the category page to send people there.
 * This is elaborated on here:
 * [http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/google-duplicate-content-caused-by-url.html](http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/google-duplicate-content-caused-by-url.html)
 * and note that “identical content” is exactly that. A page full of three posts,
   one of which *pretty much* matches a permalink isn’t identical. They’re similar,
   NOT identical.
 * abc != abc, 123, yxz
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicated-content/#post-830719)
 * there’s also this:
 * [http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66359](http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66359)
 * >  we’ll choose one of them to list
 * Me, Im lazy and unlike a lot of people trust googlebot with my site. I use a 
   sitemap, and thats it.
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/143584?replies=13](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/143584?replies=13)
 *  Thread Starter [madinternetscientist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madinternetscientist/)
 * (@madinternetscientist)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicated-content/#post-830782)
 * Thanks all
 * The reason I am concerned, here is what google has to say.
 * “Make sure you’re familiar with how content is displayed on your web site. Blogs,
   forums, and related systems often show the same content in multiple formats. 
   For example, a blog entry may appear on the home page of a blog, in an archive
   page, and in a page of other entries with the same label.”
 *  [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
 * (@iridiax)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicated-content/#post-830792)
 * Duplicate content is an issue with WordPress and other blogging platforms. I 
   often see blog archive pages instead of individual posts in Google’s search results,
   and as a user, I find it quite annoying to have to wade through a huge blog archive
   page trying to find that one post that matches my search. I often just click 
   the back button when I get one of these blog archive pages and just try another
   page in the search results.
 * It’s much better to use meta noindex on the duplicate content pages than nofollow
   on the links to them. Never block your feeds! For pages that you really want 
   Googlebot to leave alone, block those in your robots.txt.

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