Duplicate content
 

I am planning to promote good forum posts as articles. Will Google penalize me for duplicate content if I plan to keep the original forum thread?


I experimented by promoting forum threads. I wanted the forum replies to appear as comments in cms area but the replies are missing. What am I missing?
My settings:
Comments: yes
keep original thread: yes
Move to comments forum: No
All comments: Yes.
Is there anything else that controls this? :confused:

[quote=evelynpriscilla;2497320]I am planning to promote good forum posts as articles. Will Google penalize me for duplicate content if I plan to keep the original forum thread?

This might be of interest to you:

https://support.google.com/webmaster...er/66359?hl=en
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066

No sense in getting third party information. :)

Thank you tbworld for the very useful links.

Fixed this. ACP >> Options >> Content Management >> [S]Disable comments[/S]. :D

The comments option is rather limited and really doesn't work that well.

I had a similar problem but decided to opt for a manual comments forum/thread by forgetting the comments created by inherent vB and manually creating a forum dedicated to comments made from articles.

Much more control and less hassle.

Probably affected any SEO that may have been present but I don't really care about that.
I want something that works.

You are right. I tested vbcms some more. I gave read and download permission to a usergroup. But members in that group are able to see the edit pencil icon in their articles (their post was promoted to article).

Now this is something else that I changed.

I don't allow members to post articles, instead I will send them a PM to get their permission to promote or post as article. If granted, I will create/reproduce the article myself and may edit but certainly standardize the format to suit the theme of the site. Add their names to the article as a credit and done.

This again, allows for less confusion.

That is a good idea. Do you manually add their name as the author? It will be great if we have a plugin / widget code for an author bio box. A box that has the author's name, avatar, a short description of them, with a link to their profile and link to all the articles they have published. This will also motivate members.

I manually add the name yes, it has to be done that way..

There is this mod https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...=change+author

But as I remember, it does what it does but I think the users avatar is untouched, could be wrong..

Adding a name with a link to the users profile seems to do the job.

Thanks. Will check that out :up:

Do let me know how you get on. Particularly if you try the suggested mod.

It did the trick for me but it was I will ago and I am pretty vague about the avatar issue.

Thanks.......

Sure I will try it and post an update here soon.

One question about this mod. After you change the name of the author using this mod, did you get a chance to check if they have access to edit or delete the article.

Sorry, can't really answer that, I no longer have the mod installed, for one reason or another, I uninstalled it. Maybe you might want to question the developer or anyone else within that thread?

Okay will do that and post how it goes. Thanks.