: "Satellite" articles = duplicate content = Bad for SEO? I have a website with a collection of programming articles. Some topics are broad, some topics are narrow. A broad topic generally calls

@Courtney195

I have a site that uses creative commons articles as its content. The articles are great, and they are already ranking by another high authority site. Google indexed these pages from my site, but the traffic that it has sent them has been less than expected. The duplicate content issue is real for sure.

It sounds like you want topic-c.html to rank when someone searches for topic-c but you're afraid that the broad topic page won't rank for it since topic-c is at the bottom of the page. I think your concern and question is valid. I also think it's reasonable to try and rank the pages in the way that you're trying to do it. And Google will probably not penalize you for using duplicate content in this way.

A thought to consider though is would it be more beneficial to users to simply click on a link to #topic -c rather than directing them to another page? Having a user leave the broad topic page to go to topic-c when it could just be scrolled to with an anchor link isn't as useful, as it forces the user to use the back button to return to the longer broad topic article. At the same time, I do think it's reasonable to try and rank topic-c as an individual page.

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