# Duplicate Content

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/duplicate-content/91745>\
**Category:** WordPress\
**Created:** [July 7, 2018, 12:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/duplicate-content/91745 "2018-07-07T00:16:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![rmens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@rmens](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rmens)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/duplicate-content/91745/10 "2020-07-19T18:56:11Z")

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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:

- Give members of a blog that uses Discourse the full privilege of reading and responding to an article on Discourse.
- Make Discourse the ‘clubhouse’ that only shows an excerpt of the article. This does not require a canonical url set to the blogpost.

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.

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