[RichieBoy67]

Originally Posted by DemOnstar

I tried the CMS and the mod you are talking about.
I also heard of duplicate content having some kind of penalty.

I still use the CMS for articles, it is good for that but there are problems with comments and pictures and it isn't really worth the effort.
The integration of CMS and forums is better done manually.
By that I mean the thread that is created by the CMS is better posted in an invisible forum. I believe this is established practice.

What I do now is create the article (turn off comments) and then create a link for comments to another forum that is created by myself. It is much easier for comments to be added, it is more manageable and also negates the duplicate content and the attachment issues.

Thanks,

I am a little confused about how you do your comments. What do you mean you create a link for the comments to a forum that is created by itself?

Is there any chance of me seeing your system?

--------------- Added 13 Jun 2014 at 12:22 ---------------

Oh yeah, Regarding the mod that shows the cms article in the forum, I believe it only links the article basically so I do not believe this will have a duplicate content issue. The only issue with this method is that the main post cannot be edited without going into the cms.

Promoting the threads to articles seems more problematic in duplicate content terms but at times this has to be done for certain very popular threads.

I was also thinking of a mod or plug in that would add a meta or something to block those promoted threads from being crawled in the cms page. I have to think about this more though but a simple nofollow meta would block them from being crawled. I am just not sure how to implement it on individual cms articles.