4 Replies Latest reply: May 29, 2013 5:27 AM by Liam Dilley RSS

    SEO friendly Announcement Module and having a duplicate web page.

    Terry Kem Community Member
    Terry Kem May 28, 2013 10:56 AM

      On a clients website, they use the announcement module for upcoming classes they offer. They also have a web page with the class discription so it is present year round. Both announcement and web page has the same content. Both pages direct you to the event module for sign up.

      My question is, is the announcement module accessed by SEO and/or would search engines see this as duplicate content with the web page?

       

      Thanks, terry

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        • 1. Re: SEO friendly Announcement Module and having a duplicate web page.
          Liam Dilley CommunityMVP
          Liam Dilley May 28, 2013 2:17 PM (in response to Terry Kem)

          You should not be doing this like that. Because your manually making duplicate content there.

          Why does the page exist? If you have a page you do not need anouncements and if something regular occurs that you need to direct to that page form up different content.

          You should review how things work and see if you can form a better flow and structure for the site.

          • 2. Re: SEO friendly Announcement Module and having a duplicate web page.
            Terry Kem Community Member
            Terry Kem May 28, 2013 6:39 PM (in response to Liam Dilley)

            Thanks for the input. It has been a while sense I have looked at this portion of my clients website.

            The client has a page for each class she offers. I implemented the news/announcment module to bring attention to these classes when the are being offered. By dubplicateing the content on the news modules I figured it was saving one less click versus clicking on the news link, than on the news page clicing to the class page. Perhpas not the best proceedure.

             

            I guess the question I now have is this the best work flow to bring attention to new class offering as you stated in your comment? Certainly I can see now that with the news module, I at the least should advise my clinent to not duplicate the content but use a short paragraph than click to the class page.

             

            Do you have any futher direction you could advise?

             

            Thanks for your time in all this, I appreciate any advise you wish to share.

             

            Terry

            • 3. Re: SEO friendly Announcement Module and having a duplicate web page.
              Terry Kem Community Member
              Terry Kem May 28, 2013 6:44 PM (in response to Terry Kem)

              My other question is:

              Do search engines pick up the Announcement url?

              If so, is this only relevent when the annoucement is active during the release and experation dates?

               

              terry

              • 4. Re: SEO friendly Announcement Module and having a duplicate web page.
                Liam Dilley CommunityMVP
                Liam Dilley May 29, 2013 5:27 AM (in response to Terry Kem)

                Not really the right mindset. If your having the make people aware of them in this manner it is not really that effective and if you need to do this there are issues with the website itself.

                 

                This sort of thing would be controlled by a banner for example built on a web app that sits at the top of the home page with large images and call to action and short description maybe to lead people into elements you want. Controling the expiry date etc you can control when they turn on and off, you can disable and add new as you want and through that lead people into the items.

                Or use the list view of announcements to show part of the content with click through into the full.

                 

                Or ditch announcements all together and build a web app that has a list layout for the banner and the detail view of the content.

                Lots of ways you can handle this more effectivly and more enganging and better for your SEO