Hey everyone I have a question about SEO and duplicate content my question deals with I have a site which contains real estate news. The agent that owns the site would like the latest blog entry posted in the main homepage as it will be changing content and something updated to grab the readers attention.. I personally think this is a great idea but want to make sure there are going to be no negative effects since it will be showing up as duplicate content on the blog and on the index page.

Any thoughts?

Are you planning on having the entire latest post on the homepage of just a snippet like the first paragraph. If it's the whole post you might run into a duplicate content issue.

You won't get penalized, but Google will likely only show one or the other page in search results. I would think you'd want both the home page and the main blog page to have search visibility.

If you're talking about adding something like a latest post with a brief sentence or paragraph about what's on the blog I would think you'd be fine and wouldn't have a duplicate content issue.

you may read http://www.webmaster-talk.com/the-go...e-content.html

Just add a small and enticing snippet from the blog posting on to your site and provide a link to your webpage just below the snippet. In this way you'll avoid being charged with a duplicate content issue.

Hello friends
Why are you affraid of content dublicate?

It's because duplicate content is something which is offensive in SEO and Search Engines might bury your webpage down in the SERP if it finds duplicate content in your site.

And how can I prove that I'm founder of my original content on the my own website?

Well, that's a nice question Timbre.

I feel that Search Engines will judge the authenticity of a document on the basis of the date on which the document was created. Search engines will show only that piece of document which was created at the earliest.

You can also use an AUTHOR tag for your document.

<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="Your name/Email">

Thanks for tip. I have never used meta tag Author before. I will do that.

You are most welcome Timbre

Originally Posted by Normanc

You can also use an AUTHOR tag for your document.
<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="Your name/Email">

Can you explain how does this tag prevent others from
copying your content and putting the same tag into their text?

This tag can never prevent content duplication. This is just to authorise your document. Yes, this tag can also be duplicated.

Search engines will take into account the dates on which both the content were created and will only rank that whichever is older.

Thanks, Normanc, but apart from "copy-paste" copying there is copying of your ideas, I mean people just use different wording for what you've already said, and there's nothing you can do here...

That's true Jeyce, but we'll have the ranking for our documents anyway. As long as our documents are not TOTALLY copy-pasted, who cares if somebody copies our ideas and makes a document of it.

We don't lose our ranking anyway, do we

It doesn't matter whether you are the original author of the content or not. I've seen originals get filtered out of the serps, so it is probably determined by other factors.

True Gringo....have to research on this and try to figure out the factors for duplicate content issue.

hmmmm is that so?? have to search for that factors too...but how was that to the real authors?? definitely a nightmare when someone copied your content and you are the one who really did it...i think if the real author site had been indexed before the site of the one copied his content then that will be cool for the real author and unfortunate for the one copying it...so why bother to copy others content??that will definitely do you no good i must say...

I think there's a bit of misinformation running through this thread on duplicate content.

Search engines don't find duplicate content offensive. There's just no reason to present duplicate content in search results. Imagine searching for something and finding all top 10 results pointing to the same article. Pretty useless.

So search engines only want to present one of the pages with the same content. I'm going to speak in terms of Google since they seem to do the best job of filtering out duplicate content.

They do not make their determination on which page to show based on which is older. In fact they couldn't really figure out which page is older, only which page they became aware of first. Two very different things.

If you write an article and then I copy it exactly, but Google happens to spider my page first from their perspective my page is older.

Search engines won't tell you how they decide which page to display in SERPs, but best guesses are it's the one on the site with the most authority.

When the pages are on the same site there will need to be different criteria for deciding which page to display than authority.

Does this mean that Search Engine can't determined which is which? i cant see in any ways how we can get rid of this. all i know is, i myself provide a link to a certain page where i usually excerpts some thoughts, In this way Normanc is right, so we can avoid being charged with a duplicate content issue. Pitty of those webmaster who'd just FULLY copy and paste the content.

duplicate content wont kill your site.
i just finish reading a goolge blog regarding duplicated content. its a good news that G not penalise duplicated content.