Duplicate blog content and NOINDEX

[ahirai]

Suppose the "Home" page of your blog at www.example.com/domain/ displays your 10 most recent posts.

Each post has its own permalink page (where you have comments/discussion, etc.).

This obviously means that the last 10 posts show up as duplicates on your site.

Is it good practice to use NOINDEX, FOLLOW on the blog root page (blog/) so that only one copy gets indexed?

Thanks,

Akira

[AndySolo]

I think the best way to handle this would be to use excerpts on the home page.

EXAMPLE POST TITILE

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sd fsdf sdf sdf sdf ssd sdfs fsdf sdf sdfs df sdf sdf sd fsdf

sf sdfsdf s dfs fsdf sdf sdf sdfs fds dfs df ssdf s sd fsd fs

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this allows someone to visit your site, read the enticing excerpt and click the link to the blogs page.

[ahirai]

I like the idea of excerpts, and I do use them on the home page of my website (say, www.example.com).

But what about on the root page of the blog, www.example.com/blog - which is not the home page of my website?

Do you think I should do the same? (Kind of like how www.seomoz.org/blog is set up)?

[stevefidelity]

It would also be a good idea to use the canonical tag on the pages for the individual posts.

[ahirai]

I already do. So maybe it's not necessary to worry about the blog's root page?

Thanks.