Magento – I am getting a block twice in magento

blocksmagento-1.9

I am trying to create a static block on my homepage. So I added Static Block to the CMS Page Layout Update XML FIeld

Here is my code:

<reference name="left_first"> 
    <block type="cms/block" name="Offers"  before="-">
      <action method="setBlockId"><block_id>offer-link</block_id></action>
    </block>
</reference> 

Here I was expecting one block in the left side of my Home page and i am getting that but in addition to this i am getting it twice.

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Best Answer

My problem was that I have used the same block name for multiple blocks. When I made sure they are all unique, then It was rendered just once.