Title: Duplicate Content
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Duplicate Content

 *  [IMC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imc/)
 * (@imc)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-content-2/)
 * I’m wondering how to work around duplicate content, but giving visitors an easy
   layout to view categories, topics, posts and pages. The URL’s are changing based
   on where you access the post or page from but if you click the title to the actual
   post, the content is the same. Perhaps a snippet on the category and topics page
   will eliminate the duplicate content issue but I cant seem to figure out how 
   to only include a snippet.
 * Any help with the snippet? Any other workarounds for duplicate content problems?

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 *  [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
 * (@gangleri)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-content-2/#post-752202)
 * What do you mean with duplicate content? Do you mean that one post is on the 
   index, the archive, the search results, etc.? It’s the same post. If you use 
   the Excerpt Editor plugin, you can make excerpts of all the post on the index,
   archives, tag and category pages (not at the search results, but there’s a workaround
   for that) and you can make it so that people can only read the whole thing in
   the ‘single mode’.
 *  Thread Starter [IMC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imc/)
 * (@imc)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-content-2/#post-752223)
 * By duplicate content, I am speaking in terms of search engine optimization. It
   means that you have more then one link with different URL’s (from categories,
   from topics, etc.) pointing to the same content. The above example from gangleri
   can be used as well.
 * The problem with this is that search engines penalize your pages if duplicate
   content is detected. For example, if you write an article and submit it to an
   article submission site with out any modifications from the article that is posted
   on your site, to the article that is posted on the article submission site, the
   search engine can deem your content as duplicate content. This will effect your
   article showing up in the search engine rankings thus limiting traffic to your
   site or blog.
 * Thanks for the response. I will have a look at that Excerpt Editor. What exactly
   is single mode?
 *  [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
 * (@gangleri)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-content-2/#post-752358)
 * > What exactly is single mode?
 * Strange expression, excuse me. I just meant to say that when you click on a posts“
   permalink”, it opens in the single.php and this you can make the only place where
   a post is displayed in full.
 *  [udayns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/udayns/)
 * (@udayns)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-content-2/#post-752376)
 * i saw some site have duplicate content and they achiving good ranking in major
   search engines..
 *  Thread Starter [IMC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imc/)
 * (@imc)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-content-2/#post-752513)
 * Thats exactly what im looking to do Gangleri. I thought I set up the blog to 
   show snippets but it doesnt seem to be working the way i thought or I made a 
   mistake somewhere. Can you refer me to an place that can help me with this? While
   on this topic, I am concerned about writing a post and associating it with more
   then 1 category. Is anyone seeing any duplicate content penalties by linking 
   to multiple categories?
 * Udayns, Im not sure how that would be possible unless the content was not deemed
   duplicate or the search engines haven’t caught up to it yet or the search engine
   deemed the duplicate content on the page your saw more credible. Duplicate content
   is a major issue with search engines, especially in recent years. Lots of software
   has been developed to prevent it from happening. It happens inadvertently in 
   blogs b/c of the many different categories you can link a post to. Each category
   you link to creates a different URL pointing to the same content. This is considered
   duplicate content.

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