One blog post on multiple blogs

[tealpete]

I have multiple Blog pages in my site, each with a different purpose: News, Awards, Events, etc. Is there a way that I can post one post to one Blog Page and an identical post would occur on another? For example, whenever I post a call for entries on the Awards page, I would like it to also show up in the News page.

My site is cnu-mcc.org.

[whitemonkey]

@tealpete 

How bout u categorize the posts.   

Then u wont be penalized for duplicate content issues

[PaulMathews · Accepted solution]

@tealpete To follow up on what @whitemonkey indicated, what you may want to do in this case is not have separate blog pages for each category (news, awards, events, etc.) but rather have a single blog where you add the necessary category to each post to differentiate them. The category "page" can be linked to by using the link format:

https://www.center4eleadership.org/blog/category/category name

In the example link above, we have all our posts created under a (single) blog page creatively named, "blog." We attach to each post an indicative high-level category (news, awards, events, etc.). We can directly link to the category-filtered blog page by using the url format above. So, if I want to see the page with just news posts, I can follow this link:

https://www.center4eleadership.org/blog/category/news

This will give you similar functionality to discretely separating the posts into different blogs and you won't have the issue of double entry work or have to deal with the negative SEO of post duplication. If you want a particular post to appear in two categories, e.g., both "news" and "events," you simply add both categories to the post. Visitors will then see that post in both the news and events categories pages.

The major caveat here is that, since Weebly doesn't provide "tags" for categories, it'll get a bit tricky to add category-specific tagging, e.g., award "winners" could only be created by another category like "award winners" which would now appear in your main categories sidebar alongside your "real" categories of news, awards, events, etc. You can't have the category/tag parent/child relationship like you can in a more sophisticated blogging tool like WordPress. However, if tagging within categories isn't a big concern for your blog then the single blog with major categories is the approach you'll really want to use.

[whitemonkey]

@PaulMathews perfectly explained.     1 BLOG    and add  NEWS  LATEST ETC ETC as categories

[whitemonkey]

@PaulMathews  @Bernadette 

GSC   doesnt like to index weebly categories     

[tealpete]

@PaulMathews @whitemonkey This is a great idea, but then all posts have the same header. I can live with this, but ideally, I'd like to be able to have a different header for each category. Is there a way to do this? Maybe code?

@whitemonkey What do you mean, "be penalized?"

[whitemonkey]

@tealpete @PaulMathews 

PENALIZED...

  Google frowns on pages with the same/duplicate content.....   but can be overcome   by  adding a cannonical tag to standard pages but not blog pages.....     

So you add a cannonical tag to your page    and  if u make another page using much of   or all of the same content  you use the same canonical tag from the page showing the ORIGINAL content...

The set up on MEDIUM  is a good example....    there you can import content from your own website   and MEDIUM refers the content   back to the original source...

Some bloggers like to  re post other peoples content     thinking they are doing that person and themseleves a favour      ok, u might generate page hits     BUT GOOGLE will penalize them and you   fot DUPLICATE CONTENT ISSUES

[PaulMathews]

@whitemonkey Nicely explained.

[PaulMathews]

@tealpete Each category-filtered page is simply a curated posts view of the single blog page so they will necessarily have the same structure and appearance as the full blog page (showing all posts). I typically use a no-header page header type with blogs because a banner image in a blog is something of a waste of good screen real estate and, given the potentially large amount and diversity of blog page content, i.e., via many posts, a banner may provide no particular visual value to the page. In this example blog page, https://www.justhereforthebeer.com/podcasts, we have posts that contain audio content for various radio shows. The category links in the sidebar allow the visitor to filter the blog page down to a particular radio show (in this particular case, we don't explicitly link to each category-filtered view via the site navigator but we could). You'll see that we lose nothing significant from a presentation perspective with no header. Visitors can go to the page and immediately start reading - no scrolling past a useless header (which will appear not only on the main blog page but also the individual posts pages too - very irritating).

[whitemonkey]

@PaulMathews 

Yeah, i dont use the header image either     and only use standard pages     ...i had started using blog pages   and having different categories blog pages   instead of 1 blog    and categorizing them as standard     but   then i was too far in   and well,    i just luv give myself oodles more work by having to manually do everything        but have my own      "next post" and 'previous post'   section   and for me i think it works well....

If i had a laptop i would build my own site    as i love customizing   and there is only a certain amount i can achieve with editting the html css code on weebly, am forever tweaking the site  ;

https://www.nomadicbackpacker.com

[PaulMathews]

@whitemonkey Awesome. I especially like the post, "A Month of Sand in my Buttcrack is Enough." If I had a nickel for every time I uttered that statement...

I use a number of different website-building platforms. WordPress typically for the big iron projects. For drag-and-drop projects, it's typically down to Weebly or Squarespace. Each has its strengths and weaknesses. Since the change to version 7.1, Squarespace lost a lot of what put it at the head of the pack: gorgeous, clean, super-slick themes. Weebly is a perennial favorite because it's about as perfectly structured for tinkering as you're going to get in a drag-and-drop product. Not perfect but pretty darned good. The free version is exceedingly nice to play with and surprisingly fully-featured; an excellent tool to build client demos with (those demos pretty much always translate to a job win and are then upgraded to a paid hosting plan).

Weebly separated out the structural html, css, and ways to add custom script in a manner that is intuitive and sensible and allows the use of totally standard code everywhere (the departure being the use of Mustache elements in the structural html but Mustache is a dead easy learning curve). And there are some nice bits like the LESS preprocessor which dramatically streamlines css attribute updates.

I'll normally start with an existing Weebly theme, rework all the css so that it's much cleaner and easier to search, tweak the page html, and then go to town building stuff. The neat thing with Weebly is you can strip it right down to the studs if you want and rebuild your site entirely from scratch. Bootstrap in Weebly? Sure, why not.

My primary concern these days is the clumsiness of the Square acquisition. We now have two totally different editors with different intent. Messaging about how the platform is to evolve has been at best muddled. There have been very few significant updates to the Weebly Site Editor over the past several years (effort appears to have shifted more to Square's editor). I've seen this story before on other big platforms (that ultimately went Dodo) so I'm always leery about platform longevity when acquisitions happen or when there's a marked decrease in version update activity. And Square is patently terrible with communications with respect to Weebly. But, outside of that, pretty good stuff.

[whitemonkey]

@PaulMathews     thanks for the thumbs up...

The beer site looks cool.      Not weebly?

I have only ever had Weebly..   MY FIRST was  a dot weebly domain which was hacked    so i took it down  

And have the present one for 2 years.

Long term bloggers   try to convince me to switch to  WP...   but i am doing ok with WEEBLY   ( i just extended by 1 more year).saying that  without  WP one cant get good recognition on Google   but i refuse to believe that..   its all down to SEO.

I have  a dot weebly test site        and have deleted some of the html    involved with have a store    which i dt need  .... i need to look into this again.....   my theory being that the site will load faster   without baggage...

[tealpete]

Thanks, @PaulMathews and @whitemonkey! I appreciate your thoughts. Your websites have given me some ideas I'm excited to try out.

[Cruseburke]

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