Blog SEO Question
 

With regards to duplicate content and/or circular navigation have any of you seen a penalty being applied as a result of publishing a post in multiple categories. I don't see that as being duplicate content since there's only one URL pointing the the post but identical blog excerpts will show up in different categories. Lately if I'm reviewing a post that features, for example, a girl having anal sex while rubbing a dildo on her pussy I public the post in the 'anal' and 'toys' categories.

I've been thinking of publishing these posts in only one category now for fear of the the google nazi slapping me down at the expense of my surfers being able to filter the content on site how they like. What are your thoughts on this?

no, if it fits multiple cats, use it

Yep, if keywords in the post match what a spider may see with other commonly associated words it's not going to hurt you.

Just don't be tagging anal posts as non-nude :frenchman

I've seen some pages not getting indexed almost certainly to duplicate content so I try to keep posts to 1 category. But the bigger concern I've had is that archived posts still carry all your links and once your blog gets some size this can lead to penalties for "site wide" linking (yes, they can hit you for site wide's on your own domain).

For example, you keep say 10 posts on your home page so each "next" page in your blog will have 10 each. After a few months this can easily lead to 10+ archived pages which all have the same navigation/links. I haven't yet come up with an ideal way to deal with these short of deleting (or redirecting) older archived pages or increasing the posts-per-page count.

Cool, thanks for the comments guys! :)

OK... alot of clueless answers here. :upsidedow Category doesn't matter. One article in multi categories, is still one article. Categories are for people to be able to find content within your site easier. Google still sees it as one post.

Real world example... any of the blogs at weblogs inc. check and see how many cats each article is in, then tell me google is penalizing for this :1orglaugh

of course if you use cats in your permalinking then you may have a problem, as google would see it as different articles url wise.