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Is copying blog content onto business website seen as duplicate content?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Khmedia, Apr 11, 2017.

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    Hi all,

    We have a blog:

    blog.ourbusiness.com (example)

    And a website:

    ourbusiness.com (example)

    If I take some articles from our blog and put them on a page on our website:

    ourbusiness.com/articlefromblog.html

    Would this been seen as duplicate content and harm our SEO?

    Would we be better deleting the blog article once we copy over the article?

    Would love to hear your thoughts on this!

    Thank you.
     
    Khmedia, Apr 11, 2017 IP
  2. dcristo

    dcristo Illustrious Member

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    #2
    Yes this is duplicate content and you should avoid it.
     
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  3. JoeSpirit

    JoeSpirit Well-Known Member

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    Also once you post it on your blog and the search engines see that they know where the original content first existed. Moving it to your website, and deleting it from your blog, will not change that knowledge.
     
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    Khmedia Member

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    Thanks for the replies. I guess new and original content seems the best way to go. I think if I need to use something from the blog I will use it as 'inspiration' for the new content and rewrite it so that is doesn't become duplicate.
     
    Khmedia, Apr 11, 2017 IP
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    JoeSpirit Well-Known Member

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    That's a wise path to follow. Another alternative is to re-write the first couple of paragraphs in the article, add a link to the full article on your blog. The link can read something like: "For further information about '...' please read the full article at '...'." And you can post that on the website.
     
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  6. Khmedia

    Khmedia Member

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    Thanks Joe. That's also good suggestion re rewrite and linking back. The only issue is that the ideally I need the traffic coming from Blog ----> Website and if I have the user on the website I'd want them to 'stick'. If you understand me! But maybe you know some SEO trick here that I don't!
     
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    In that case, I would recommend writing a small article for your blog and link it to a more detailed article on the website.

    Since you need a minimum 300-word article for SEO purposes on the blog (and in truth these days that actually needs to be more like 500 to 1000 words) I would write an article meeting those requirements for the blog. Then link that to an expanded article on the website (2000 or more words) - rewritten and made unique.

    That should make the search engines very happy.
     
    JoeSpirit, Apr 12, 2017 IP