It’s not that the posts are published twice, it’s just that the cross-linking in blogs allows Google spiders to find the articles more than once in different places. It appears to Google that the article is published more than once, but in fact there is only one article, published once. There are multiple references to it at the same time, so Google’s ‘smart’ spiders think it is multiple posts!

The recent posts and comments sections are automatic, but you can make your own widget with text and create links that way.

Kenneth

Hello, Kenneth …

This is an unfortunate situation, and it is affecting not only bloggers, but affiliate marketers as well, some of whom have told me that a large percentage of their articles have simply disappeared from view. Since they depend on the visibility of these articles in the search engines for their livelihood, for them it is also a very serious situation.

But if you truly feel that some of your posts rightfully belong in more than one category on your blog, mightn’t there be some other way of accomplishing that besides re-publishing the entire article there? For instance, is there a likely place in each category where you could have a “see also” section where you could put a link to it? So that at least it’s cross-referenced?

I notice, for example, that you have a “Recent Posts” section on the right-hand side of your blog that itemizes your recent posts, and also a “Comments” section that itemizes visitors’ comments. Are these “plugins” that populate automatically, or do you have discretionary control over them, such that you could set up a similar section in each category for “see also” cross-referencing purposes?

Regards, Elizabeth …