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Duplicate Content and Outside Blogs
If you don't care to read about all the technical details below, just set up your Outside Blog on a custom domain (ie, jonwashburn.com), not just a sub-domain (jon.activerain.com) and trust us that it's going to kick SEO butt. For those of you who like first hand info, here you go.
In case you haven't heard, we launched outside blogs yesterday, June 25th, 2008. We are really excited to have a platform that our members can utilize to seamlessly syndicate their content across multiple domains, allows for individual branding and at the same time exposes their content to high volumes of traffic. A common question surrounding the release of Outside Blogs centers on the issue of duplicate content, how the search engines handle duplicate content (specifically Google), and how we will structure both your ActiveRain blogs and your outside blogs to provide you the most exposure.
First, let's clear up a little bit of terminology. There are four seperate places that your blog post can show up.
Your ActiveRain blog (activerain.com/blogs/arbob)
Localism
Sub-domain blog (activebob.activerain.com)
Outside Blog (jonwashburn.com) This part is VERY IMPORTANT and will take care of duplicate content for one of the four. We will be adding no-index ... more

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