I had this tricky question (for me) from my subscriber. He asked "I have a blog installed on a sub-folder on my site. What would be the effect of using the latest page on the blog as the index page for my site as well? I fear I could be penalized by google" Please advice me on what I should tell her
it will not penalize you. i think repeated content within the home page will not be a problem unless you are using it a lot. but also this may make your home page less important in the eyes of se. it should be the most rich page on the website as most of your backlinks point to it, so you should take advantage of that