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zee007

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I'm building out WEB 2.0's and I was wondering about duplicate content. Since each post shows up on the homepage and it has a separate page as well, will Google consider this as a duplicate content? Or do blogs already have an in built re-canonical tag?
 
Great question zee007,

Since the home page of the property and the post page have different URL's, it would just be a matter of which one gets indexed first. So a home page might be example.com (and has a post on it) and the post page might be example.com/post#1. Google may crawl the home page first or the post page first but either way the content will be indexed.

I don't have any solid proof on this but I would venture a guess that most reputable web 2.0's have canonical functions in place.

Hope that helps,

Shawn
 
Great question zee007,

Since the home page of the property and the post page have different URL's, it would just be a matter of which one gets indexed first. So a home page might be example.com (and has a post on it) and the post page might be example.com/post#1. Google may crawl the home page first or the post page first but either way the content will be indexed.

I don't have any solid proof on this but I would venture a guess that most reputable web 2.0's have canonical functions in place.

Hope that helps,

Shawn

Thanks for the update guys, but I want to really find out about the canonical tag. Without it, the content will definitely be taken as duplicate. Here is a blog: http://ruditronics.wordpress.com

I dont see a rel canonical tag anywhere in the individual posts or the homepage
 
Install All in One SEO and you have canonical URL's.
 
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Install All in One SEO and you have canonical URL's.

Yeah that stuff would work for wordpress, but I'm trying to create a bunch of WEB 2.0 properties and probably cant play around with the HTML code.
 
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