I was wondering the same thing about duplicate synchronized WP/Discourse content from this topic: https://meta.discourse.org/t/risk-of-duplicate-content-with-synchronized-wp-posts-discourse-topics/91737
But it got closed by Jeff Atwood saying there are already existing topics. I couldn’t find any topics that addressed this question. Please advise.
I searched before posting and I didn’t find any either, a bit confused. Maybe I didn’t use the right keywords?
It’s been brought up a few times, but I don’t think there is a topic dedicated to it. There is a topic on Feverbee that I contributed to: https://experts.feverbee.com/t/is-it-possible-for-the-feverbee-blog-posts-to-be-pulled-in-full/6192. It is possible to set the Canonical URL of a WordPress post so that it matches the Discourse topic. Beyond that, I don’t think there is anything the plugin can do about the duplicate content issue.
Covered here: Embedding Discourse Comments via Javascript
Maybe one year later: is there any other solution for the duplicate content issue?
Like add a canonical url in the discourse forum post or no-index the forum post.
Maybe 9 months later: this is something that keeps coming up with us too. We started posting only the excerpt to Discourse, but our members don’t like to be bounced back to the site to read the full article.
Well, you can’t have it both ways, so I’m not sure what you’re proposing here.
My proposal would be to offer some flexibility, so there is a choice of what type of community to make without getting dinged by Google for duplicate content:
The first option would require a canonical url pointing to the blogpost that is not on Discourse. The easiest way to offer this flexibility imho is an option to set the canonical url for a topic.
Yes, this is a thing. Google don’t like duplicate copies of articles.
Your options here seem pretty simple:
Right?
An embed set canonical url site setting was recently added to Discourse. When this setting is enabled, the canonical URL for topics that have an embed URL will be set to the topic’s embed URL. For sites using the WP Discourse plugin, enabling this setting will cause the canonical URL of any posts published from WordPress to be set to the WordPress post’s URL.
This turned out to work great. It was just not obvious to me how to create a topic with a canonical URL. After some experimentation I found out you have to enter the original URL as topic title.
@simon Cos’è esattamente un “URL di incorporamento”? Ho anche sentito il termine “argomenti incorporati”. Non sono sicuro di cosa significhino.
L’URL di incorporamento è un attributo che può essere associato a un argomento. Il plugin WP Discourse imposta l’URL di incorporamento sul permalink del post di WordPress. Pertanto, se si utilizza l’impostazione del sito embed set canonical url, il permalink del post di WordPress sarà l’URL canonico dell’argomento di discourse (cioè, apparirà nell’intestazione come link canonico).
Grazie. L’attributo embed url è impostabile solo tramite API?
Sì, puoi impostarlo solo tramite l’API. Viene utilizzato da varie funzionalità che comportano l’importazione di contenuti da un servizio di terze parti.
chiuso o eliminato? embed set canonical url risolve completamente il problema SEO dei contenuti duplicati?
Sì, lo fa se usato correttamente. Si prega di rivedere quanto sopra, in particolare il post di Simon, e di farci sapere se avete domande o problemi specifici.
Il mio caso d’uso sarebbe quello di creare discussioni in Discourse automaticamente da WordPress utilizzando il plugin Discourse WordPress con l’opzione embed set canonical url abilitata.
Una volta collegato WordPress a Discourse e creati automaticamente i nuovi argomenti, devo fare qualcos’altro oltre ad abilitare quell’opzione embed set canonical url?
Sì, è tutto ciò che devi fare.