Duplicate content issues from home page latest posts

[Clement]

Hi guys

I think I'm having duplicate content issues on my website running Genesis and Prose. I have a dynamic front page with a list of my latest blogposts including excerpts from the first few paragraphs.

If I grap text from the first paragraph of any of my posts

and paste it into google search, I get two search results. One search result is the post, the other search result is my home page [which has an excerpt of the post].

I have tried this experiment on other blogs [eg jeffbullas.com] but the search results only return the post from which the text was take, not the home page [with excerpts of the post].

I found this tool http://www.siteliner.com/ recomended by someone at moz.com and it also confirms I have duplicate content issues: from the excerpts of my posts on my home page, and also from the contents of my sidebar which appears on all posts and pages.

Any suggestion on how I can fix the duplicate content issues:
- on my home page
- in my side bar?

Many thanks

Clement

Additional information:
I'm using chrome browser on chrome os [chromebook]. My website has all in one seo pack plugin with settings as follows:
- cannonical urls [on]
- no pagination for cannonical urls [on]
- enable custome cannonical urls [off]
- set protocol for cannonical urls [auto]
- use original title [disabled]
- use schema.org markup [disabled]
- use noindex for categories, date archives, author archives, tag archives, search page, 404 page, paginated pages/posts [on for all of these]
- avoid using the excerpt in descriptions [off]
- autogenerate descriptions [off]
- remove descriptions for paginated pages [off]
- never shorten long descriptions [off]
- unprotect post meta fields [off]
- exclude pages [none]
- additional post/page/front page/blog pages headers [none for all]

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[Brad Dalton]

You can no index any URL using various methods.

You can also exclude previously displayed posts from a widget in a sidebar.

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[Clement]

Thanks for your response Brad

Firstly, it it a bad thing that my home page and my blog post come up together in the search results?

Secondly, i know how to no index URLs with my SEO settings. However I think I would not want to no index my home page. What are you suggesting?

If this is a simple matter to resolve please advise or link to resources. If I need to hire a web developer please let me know also.

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[Brad Dalton]

I would ask on the Google Webmaster Forums.

And look at no indexing your blog page and other archives that are duplicates.

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[ortweinruv2]

Hi!
I think search engines today are clever enough to make a distinction between copied duplicate content and linked duplicate content. I don't think it will cause you any trouble.

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