duplicate blog content and search engines

[walrus]

Originally Posted by Simon

Something I'm starting to play with are WordPress' conditional tags. With a bit of work, you could ensure that the sidebars are swapped for other ones based on what the surfer is viewing: main page, earlier chronological pages, a WP Page, a category or tag page, etc.

I've been using conditional tags for awhile now. The old XXX Blog Maniac had separate hardlinks per category. The new one I've kind of gone hog wild with.

Originally Posted by T Pat

I don't worry about getting dinged for duplicate content.
I won't share my reasoning on the board but if you buy me a beer in Vegas I'll spill
I'm working on a huge wordpress blog/splog , I'm more worried about the Search Engines dinging me for using wordpress than duplicate content

We're going to have a lot of beers and do a lot of talking.