Will changing the date on a blog post that has been there say six months to today's date result in duplicate content penalty? My gut tells me it is duplicate content but how harmful probably depends on how often it is done. I doubt once a year would be a huge problem. Probably safer to re-write at last a small degree with different words in the title. Please give m your thoughts though.
Are you planning to use a different URL for same content? That would of course mean duplicate content unless you go with the shiny new canonical URLs
the same (or substantially the same) content that exists in more than one place is duplicate content, whether or not its on more than one site. Duplicate content won't help you rank for anything much.
just changing the date would not make it duplicate content. if you change the date, then the blog entry will move up or down but keep the same URL and category so no dup content
So like most things the answer is, it depends. Changing the title could actually make things worse. Also, if you're using date based post (I think that's the WordPress default?) that could get you duplicate only if the permalink changes but I don't think it would, I believe the permalink would stay the same. I use article ID/catagory/title. I would have an issue if the article ID changed. So it doesn't matter if the old content is still there or not? If I change the URL, the old post URL is no longer there. If that's true than I've duplicated my entire sites because I changed the titles on every post. I don't seem to have been penalized and I've done that on three sites. Hope someone will explain this part because I'm still learning and make changes. I've been learning for a long time. Thanks for the help!
rename the old post to something different, create the new post with the old url then change 30-40% of the content and you should be able to avoid the duplicate content filter
but if we change the URL for the old post, then some of the link in other people site (Link back) and the link is search engine may not updated. so this may bring to the broken link problem
Changing the date doesn't create duplicate content. Changing the title doesn't move the content or create duplicate content. Unless there is some weird configuration or plugin in use Anyway, its not that hard to test if you are worried. Wordpress blogs are notorious for having dup content anyway, with posts found in different urls... i.e. post/category/archive, etc. Google has gotten pretty good at dismissing the duplicate posts.
Simey, Google has said the different links too articles like your talking of are not a problem if they are on the same website. They went on to say, forums on a subdomain are a different matter though.
does this mean that i can repeat the same paragraph two times on the same page and it will not be treated as duplicate content???do reply please
Why look for duplicate content when you are able to create a fresh content? Remember, less posting but quality contents is better than having a lot of posting but duplicated.