Hi guys, I have a question: If i repeat this in many pages, such as index.php, search.php, page.php, etc, is it not good for SEO or is it ok? I mean, i am afraid that Google will consider it as spamming (because of repeating). This featuredContent.php is only containing the_title() and a href to the_permalink(); Any suggestions and idea, i thank you a bunch in advance!
There is really no reason to do that. Yes, it is duplicate content and a waste of blog space. Think of it like this..if you sold cars, and you only stocked red cars, then the only chance you have of selling a car is if the person that comes in likes red cars. If not, then you are out of luck. Why make duplicate pages the exact same ? Then you are limiting how you will be found via search, because only one page will be indexed, the rest will fall as supplemental content..so you have just wasted all of your other pages instead of using them to work for you. Better make the other pages original content and multiply your chances.
Hey hmansfield, Thank you for the respond! I was thinking about that too, but in wordpress, we repeat too. I mean, is there any difference between sidebar and featured content? If it's repeating adding featuredContent.php, then it's repeating to add sidebar.php?
True,there are a lot of things in word press that can create duplicate content...category pages, archive pages, and tagged pages just to name a few. Posting in 2 different categories is another way. If you are using a plug in like All in One SEO, you can disallow the indexing of those pages to avoid that. As far as the sidebar goes, maybe someone else can answer that one. I know there is a way to set a robots.txt file to disallow the sidebars, but it has never bothered me enough to make the adjustments, The point is, not to add to the possibilities of creating duplicate content, you really want to go the opposite direction.