SEO friendly method of referencing articles, to avoid duplicate content penalty?
 

Hey guys,

I'd like to reference some articles from a friend, I've got permission but I'm curious how to do it in a way that would not make it considered duplicate content in google?

The only thing I can think of is to not allow googlebot to crawl that page? But the beginnings of the article will be on the main page of my blog, so I'm not sure if that'll work?

Using wordpress, maybe there is a plugin for this or something?

there is a wordpress plugin called "googlebot" that crawls the entire web looking for duplicate content.

duplicate content penalty is overrated :2 cents:

Best way to avoid duplicate content, is to click my sig -> sign up -> place banners ALL over the article.

That way they keyword density changes, and you are good to go.

i disagree. if services like copyscape can find duplicate content, i am sure google can too.

although i dont think google weighs it as much as some think, i do think that google is going to start weighing it more which is why they integrated the new nofollow stuff.

Duplicate content is a bitch. Why not just hire someone to rewrite it?

not enough info to make any kind of call.

For the articles that's certainly a good idea...now that I'm thinking about it though, there are a bunch of interviews, which can't really be re-written.

I'm surprised someone hasn't come out with a plugin that adds an option to wordpress that basically says: do not let google index this post/page whatever.

Or, some kind of WC3 compliant tag that you can wrap the duplicate content in, and provide a link to the source, or attribute it to whoever - Just as you would in a proper essay or whatever, where you put the sources of your quotes and such at the end.

As said above, rewrite it or copy part of it and put [full article] links.