# SEO Problems with RSS duplicate content

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/seo-problems-with-rss-duplicate-content/299375>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** rss-polling, seo\
**Created:** [March 14, 2024, 5:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/seo-problems-with-rss-duplicate-content/299375 "2024-03-14T17:40:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![ecki](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ecki/32/264025_2.png) [@ecki](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ecki)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 5:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/seo-problems-with-rss-duplicate-content/299375/1 "2024-03-14T17:40:15Z")

</div>

We use the RSS plugin (or manual copies) for our blog posts to create them as a discussion anker in a category. Google does’nt like such “copied” content and threatens to damage the SEO reputation of the blog.

Of course we can stop google indexing the discourse (or the category), but has anybody experience with somehow defining that this is intended. Something like “this subdomain belongs to the blog, we don’t try to make link farms” or something like that? If so, how to implement that in the discourse settings.

I believe to remember roughly, that with `rel=nofollow` or similar it should at least address the backlink-farming aspect (not sure about the content duplicate aspect). Is there maybe a header “this is a copy of” which apeaces Google?

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/seo-problems-with-rss-duplicate-content/299375)._