• I am developing two different WP websites for different lines of business, they use the same theme, but the content is different. I’m using the blog capabilities as a way to push out information; I’m not interested right now in getting user comments per se. Perhaps we’ll add that to the mix in the future. The highlights in the blog are applicable to both audiences. Is there a way to the blog to be housed at one site, but accessible from the other site as though it was part of that site? That is, same content but a different headers and navigation etc. I’m not opposed to the second site receiving posts via a feed, but if there is a way to have it just in one place, that would be preferable.

    I’ve tried searching here, but nothing is quite what I need and many of the discussions are several years old.

    I would greatly appreciate comments and suggestions.

    Apologies if this is one of those basic newbie questions, and if there are resources to explain how to do this (or how it is not possible), I’ve appreciate being pointed in the right direction.

    Thanks

    Tom

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  • Not possible without one grabbing the content from the other.

    But you might not want to do such a thing if you are expecting to get traffic from Google for either site because Google does not like duplicate content on two sites.

    Thread Starter TomVA

    (@tomva)

    Thanks. I’m aware of the google consideration, but had assumed if most of the content on each site was different, that would be less of an issue. Sounds like I’m wrong about that. A newsfeed places the same content on different sites. Does Google consider that duplicate content?

    Thanks again.

    A newsfeed places the same content on different sites. Does Google consider that duplicate content?

    Yes.

    But there is a way around it. You will need to set up a canonical tag on the blog posts on one site that point back to the other sites page URL’s. This will tell Google, and other search engines, that the content should be indexed for the other URL only and not that pages URL. That will alleviate any duplicate content problems, but will see only one blog having it’s articles indexed. In a situation like you’re in that’s the best result that you’re going to get – unless you write unique content for both blogs.

    Thread Starter TomVA

    (@tomva)

    Thanks. I’m not familiar with using the canonical tag. Since seeing your post I’ve read up on it a bit. Would this have to be added to every post or simply to the page on which those posts appear?

    You’d only need it on the pags that are duplicate content. If it needs to be kept on (some SOE plugins add it by default) anything else can have it present, but linked back to the current page URL.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

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    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Whatever you do, DO NOT USE A FEED.

    You will crash your server if you get enough traffic. It makes a nice recursive loop.

    Thread Starter TomVA

    (@tomva)

    OK, thanks for the all the input. Clearly we have some further thinking to do.

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