[ronin]

Thank you Jay!

I have looked at the link and saved it to read again this evening. Now, they raise an issue that was going to be my next post.

My blog is http:// www. crime-information. com/ (remove link if not permitted - sorry)

They mention the duplicate content built into many or most WP themes and that Google penalizes this. I'm not sure of that, I've heard they disregard one and credit the original content.

For example on my blog, there's the original post that I wrote displayed on the home page. It's tagged to 1 or more categories. In the category section, they appear as excerpts like http:// www crime-information com/category/crime-information (in crime information category)

And if the excerpt is clicked it takes you to a duplicate full version (as on the home page) except they contain a unique URL such as www crime-information com/crime-escalates-as-heat-rises, showing the custom title I gave it when posted.

I realize that as my number of 8 posts displayed bumps posts off of the home page, that there will only be the excerpt and the properly titled full version - and when this happens, there is no longer a duplicate version - since it's gone from the index page and only appears in the category excerpts and the actual post with the URL I assigned it, left existing.

I thought about this and decided that I agree with you and am not going to use the excerpts on the home page, post more often, and since I post very long articles, maybe cut that amount down to maybe 3 to 5 posts displaying on the home page. This should get them off the main page quicker and curtail the dup. content issue??

I would love to hear your thoughts on this?

Thanks for reading and responding to my thread!

Chuck