Does wordpress create a duplicate content problem?

Hello,

I am using wordpress from quite some time and now i think that it may create a copied content problem. I just wanted to know the opinion of others regarding this matter.

For example i made post titled "Test Post" on www.blog.com . I have set in my wordpress options to display only one post on homepage. So by default "Test Post" will be displayed on homepage as well as http://www.blog.com/test-post/ also. Arent both of these pages exact duplicate of each other.

regards
aditya

 

To answer in long verse. No. Google will not penalise you for this. It's a natural part of a blog.

Col

 

Still confused.....

 

True, but it can be a pain in the ass when you have 4 different url's for one page, trust me it sent me crazy before.

Check out;
http://fucoder.com/code/permalink-redirect/

Also i have

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domainl.com/$1 [R=301,L]

# If requested resource does not exist as a file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
# and does not end with a period followed by a filetype
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !..+$
# and does not end with a slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
# then add a trailing slash and redirect
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1/ [R=301,L]

Code (markup):

So with that, if you try going to http://domain.com it redirects to http://www.domain.com etc etc

 

Well yes i see that it was blogged by Jim Westergren also earlier.

One blog post seems to have 4 different urls like -

http://www.blog.com/blog-post
http://www.blog.com/blog-post/
http://blog.com/blog-post
http://blog.com/blog-post/

All of them are looked at as different posts. And PR is also distributed.

regards
Aditya

 

google shouldn't penalise you on tat.

as it's still the same content from ya site.
and besides, it's how wordpress categories it anyway.
no worries about it aditya!