Duplicate Content Wordpress Blockquote

Will cut pasting a 1 paragraph quote in posting it as a blockquote in wordpress cause duplicate content penalty?

 

There is some disagreememnt on how much duplication will get the dupe penalty, but most will agree that as long as your content is around 90% or higher unique it should be Ok

 

thanks for clearing this up

 

It depends on the length of the post. If the post is of the same length it can be penalized.

 

A single paragraph? No, it won't, unless the paragraph happens to be a significant chunk of the content on the page. Also, if you're sticking that paragraph inside the blockquote element, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the search engines recognized that you were quoting something anyway.

And even if they didn't recognize it, I'm sure your site's other users would.

 

thanks dan

 

I'm pretty sure they'll recognize the idea of blockquote. People use it for layout sometimes - the indent - but SEs give added weight to headings, and seem to prefer "semantic" markup. ( Which is really more of a buzzword than anything else, but ... ) Block quotes mean you're quoting somebody.

If you're worried, and you shouldn't be, you can use a cite.

 

Semantic isn't a buzzword - in the case of HTML, it means using the proper element for the job it was intended to. There's an actual definition for the word, and it actually fits in very well with the Web.

 

so SE reads the code "cite"?

 

Yes, they do. Just make sure you use it properly (to cite your source when quoting). Remember, HTML elements have purposes, use them as they were intended.

 

Quoting a single paragraph should not be an issue if you are 'quoting' it to explain something further.

 

thanks, quoting with what btw?

 

USPB, aspire means "quoting the paragraph" - in other words, quoting the page that the paragraph was found on (and then on top of that using cite to attribute the source of the quotation).

 

I generally agree with you. But WordPress calls itself the "semantic" blogging platform because it wraps everything ( scripts, images ) in paragraph tags, or turns divs and spans into them.

I'm really big on machine readability of documents, which means semantic-ness is important. I use xhtml pretty much for that reason ... but I've seen the term abused way too much.

 

WordPress is far from semantic - the markup it produces is just as bad as, if not worse than, most other blogging packages and content managemnet systems. I'm actually working on a site that will hopefully put an end to this though.

 

It's horrible. And yet, for someone who isn't a graphic designer, the sheer number of gorgeous wp themes makes it worth fighting the markup. It basically turns everything into a paragraph and calls itself semantic for it.

 

what is semantic by the way?

 

Semantic - Property of language pertaining to meaning. For example, a sentence can be grammatically correct but semantically incongruent, as in “The man was pregnant.”

From http://connection.lww.com/Products/guitar/documents/Glossary-final.doc (according to a Google definition search anyway)

 

great thanks again, got your sites dan