The same content on different webpages, including on pages on different websites. Search engines may penalise websites which have duplicate content on them.
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Is this considered to be “Internal Near-Duplicates”?
Some people generate the same pages with a slight variation in keywords, title, country name, region name, etc... This is typically considered to be "Internal Near-Duplicates."
I have seen a website ...
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Wordpress - Too much information about SEO tags - archives - posts. Which is best?
Point 1: I have a front page which is dynamic because it gets all the latest posts that are rated. The question is: do I have to make these posts an excerpt, because that's better for SEO?
Point 2: I ...
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Does writing the same quote or statement of a person in multiple sites/blogs is a content spam? [closed]
I know that publishing same content in different sites/blogs is a spam ( Duplicate Content ) but i have a big doubt that if I'm going to publish an article or news about a celebrity or a famous ...
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Similar Pages SEO Impact [closed]
From what I read, having similar pages(not duplicate content) impacts SEO. I have two pages which are search results, which have different results. The pages are
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How to prevent duplicate content penalty in this special case
I am building a micro-blogging page where everyone can post about everything and it's shown on some kind of a post-it-wall.
Older posts disappear fast (depending how much is posted, of course). ...
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What do large review sites do when duplicate content is unavoidable?
Most review sites, for example sites that review games with different platforms, will often have three URL's with identical content, only differing in color schemes, and of course comments. This is ...
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repeating content consequences on bootstrap visible-desktop, visible-tablet, visible-phone
I am using bootstrap visible-desktop, visible-tablet, visible-phone to show different orders or span divs. Please see this page example: http://www.getaveo.com/snoring-causes/what-causes-snoring.aspx
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SEO for niche web directory - using canonical for pagination?
I am creating a niche web directory. Each category has a quality text and then about 1000 sites listed. My primary goal is to get Google traffic for each category intro. Only on 1st page of each ...
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How to handle duplicate product pages for SEO?
I am using the following URL format to display products: mysite.com/category1/product.
Now I am finding certain products fall into more than 1 category and I would like the product to be listed in ...
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URL query variables and rel=canonical
I have 14 pages of products on my site. Each page has 10 products. The product pages are powered by Ajax, and I have a filter results feature which lets them only show products with higher ratings, ...
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If I have a blog on Tumblr that is also embedded on my website - will this negatively impact my search engine rankings for either URL?
If I have a blog on Tumblr that is also embedded on my website - will this negatively impact (because of duplicate content) my search engine rankings for either URL?
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How to redirect IP to domain?
My IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xx is pointing to example.com at GoDaddy but I just noticed that when I type the IP in browser, it doesn't redirect to the website, how can do this? I am sure this will happen ...
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duplicate meta description even though link is removed?
I thought this was just webmaster taking it time to catch up but it has been there for weeks now and webmaster crawled as recently as 16th May. I am being advised in HTML improvements the below but I ...
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How to handle clients who want to add duplicate content to their sites
I have some clients who are requesting that I put pages on their websites that amount to duplicate content. One wants the exact same page on two of their websites. Another wants to put content from a ...
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How to deal with just a section of duplicate conent on multiple pages [duplicate]
I'm doing SEO for a cell phone buyback website.
On every individual product page, there's a section of text for entering in the condition of the cell phone, filling user information etc. The thing ...
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How should I include “outside” content mentioning/related to my site? [closed]
I have a web shop and I'm thinking about doing a "In the media" page where I would link to other sites/blogs that mention my shop/products and now I'm unsure if I should include a link as a short blog ...
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Prevent Duplicate content when using CloudFlare
I have a website which uses CloudFlare CDN. At the CDN setup, CloudFlare created a sub-domain like direct.example.com to my website, which can be used to override CloudFlare and access the site ...
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Multiple webpages with the same page titles/meta-tags
I have created several duplicate pages because my website is in 3 languages (yes I know this is bad way to achieve this).
Will Google flag my site as spam if I use duplicate page titles/meta ...
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Is it good to index category in search engines? [duplicate]
I have a Wordpress blog.
Is it good to index category in search engines? Will it cause duplicate content issue?
I'm little scared about Panda Google algorithm.
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Robots.txt Blocking Blog Tags?
Tags are causing duplicate content on my website and I want to make sure that I block them from being indexed. Is this the right syntax to use for blocking those Tags from being crawled?
User-agent: ...
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How to avoid duplicate content even when using 301 redirections?
I manage a website with tens of thousands of pages named /view.php?id=1234 and so on. Because we wanted it to be more SEO-friendly, a 301 Moved Permanently redirection of each one of them to ...
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SEO duplicate content
I have a blog about a game. Lets say that the game releases some news and gives it to Blog A and Blog B.
Now my blog (Blog A) will copy that news and paste it in an article.
Somebody else's blog ...
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Domain migration and duplicate content/index issue
I have a website.net which I want to 301 redirect to website.com and I also want to change URL structure on some pages on the new .com site.
Problem is that .com is currently set as Website Alias of ...
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How to overcome duplicate URLS
I am having a website which is 3 years old, now I wanted to do some SEO chages into it. so, changed the some urls.
From: /psd-layouts.html to /psd-web-layouts.html
Now my question is that, I had ...
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Wordpress Category/Tag Pages As Indexed Actually Help In Traffic?
I several days ago somewhere read that category and tag pages should be noindexed. But later on somewhere else, I read that, they only increase rank for search term, but overall traffic decreases- ...
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Our website has been 'cloned' and is now running under a .vn domain - course of action?
Our website http://llidesign.co.uk - (design and developed in house and completely hand coded, no templates) has been cloned - http://menplus.vn and is now being hosted on a .vn (Vietnam) domain.
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Duplicate title tags error in webmaster tools
I have changed some URLs in my site then to prevent webmaster tools duplicate error I redirected (301) old URLs to new URLs also I tried to remove old URLs in "Optimization>Remove URLs" section of ...
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Duplicated contents warning in Google Webmaster Tools even though I use canonical links
I have some duplicated pages that show the exact same content on different URLS on my website, and I use canonical links to point them all to one of the pages.
So if Page A, B, C, D and E have the ...
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How does a site like Kotaku get away with duplicate content? [closed]
I've noticed that a lot of the time, content is taken from the United States Kotaku and then copy and pasted to other regions Kotaku like Australia.
How are they able to do this when Google looks ...
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Shopping site catering to 2 countries where *most* content is same, except pricing. Duplicate content?
I'm working on redeveloping a small site for a boutique food producer. They are New Zealand based but are wanting to start selling in Australia. They have both domain names (.co.nz and .com.au).
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Duplicate meta descriptions after Permalink change
I recently changed my permalink structure on Wordpress to remove the year and month from the URL.
Old structure - ...
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Duplicate title tags link to the same unique url
In Google Webmaster Tools Im dealing with HTML Improvements > Duplicate title tags.
I have a Wordpress site and I use multiple categories for some posts. I have subsequently deleted one category (one ...
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Should I redirect the site IP address to the domain name
I have been told by an SEO company to redirect the site IP to the domain using a 301 redirect. This will apparently improve the SEO ranking of the site. The site has a dedicated IP address.
Is this ...
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Client using a 3rd party to provide content, this 3rd party provides service to thousands of other users - duplicate content? [duplicate]
A client is using some software provided by a 3rd party that outputs automatically updated information relevant to their industry.
This resource is used by thousands of other customers. A simple ...
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How to Give proper Credit to Original Content keeping in mind the Google SEO
I have a website about Delhi and its tourism spots. Now for giving information about these spots, I am using Wikipedia and any other website for the information content, but I want to give Credit to ...
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Consolidate search results from site that gets accessed from multiple domains
I have a site hosted on Windows Azure, and I have a domain pointing to the site, so I can access the site using both mysite.cloudapp.net as well as mysite.com.
Now for some reason Google indexed ...
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Should I block Wordpress archive pages from search engines?
I use WordPress and /sample-post/ URLs for my posts and /yyyy/mm/ for the archives.
Google has indexed the site fully.
Since the archives currently display full posts I've thought that I shouldn't ...
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SEO: Monthly changing homepage, better to redirect or duplicate?
I have a website called What can I plant now which is a simple site with a page for each month of the year and a homepage which mirrors the content for the current month.
Example
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For SEO, should I direct an existing website with a lower page rank to a new, better-ranked site?
I have a client that has an existing site, let's call it bobthebuilder.com. My client has been posting blog posts to it for the past couple of years and a modest amount of sites are naturally linking ...
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will search engine bots penalize/index download links which is a link to just a file and not a page with certain other criterias?
The scenario is
My page is a music description page with proper title, description, keywords, h1 and a description as a paragraph
Url of this page is a meaningful long slug(not very long) separated ...
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pagination and duplicate content with one paragraph in each page with totally different listing
I have a module in my site which can be accessed like sitename.com/module/
This module has pagination.
In the first page i have two paragraphs which describe about the site. This will appear in all ...
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Rel=alternate / canonical implemented for mobile, canonical not being respected
I manage an ecommerce website that has mobile URLs on a subdomain, so m.rootdomain.com.
On the mobile URLs, there's a canonical pointing to the relevant product on the www. subdomain (desktop site). ...
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How to handle duplicate content in a tabbed area?
On my home page I have a tabbed section that loads the content via JavaScript. I have 5 tabs that can be clicked. For example, there's an "about us" tab that has a couple of paragraphs in it and a ...
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multilingual domains both crawled and come up to the wrong audience
I have a domain with multilingual support through subdomains. Each language version is identical besides the titles which are translated. e.g.:
domain.com
ja.domain.com
es.domain.com
I'm ...
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cdn.domain.com indexed by Google. The content is being considered as duplicate content
I am running my website with CodeIgniter framework. I have setup cdn using cname cdn.domain.com which is being indexed by Google. And the content of the both domain.com and cdn.domain.com is having ...
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Why is Google indexing all these other websites?
I run a web hosting company and I have noticed something strange about the way my website and the other websites that I host are indexed in Google. For some reason, other websites that I am hosting ...
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Should I send my content to other websites by RSS Feed? [duplicate]
This is a real estate website with thousants of items published with information and pictures.
There are a lot of other websites where I can send a XML Feed so they will republish the content and ...
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SEO and location targeting , sub-domain or sub-directory? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Subdomain versus subdirectory
With regards to say a national service that has locations based in 10 cities. Each city needs to have individual content, such as blogs, ...
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SEO and non seo internal linking
on my video web page which has rewritten url, I am linking to related videos with non-rewitten urls , this results that google considering it as Duplicate meta descriptions for the pages ,example:
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SEO wikipedia content and blockquote - duplicate content
I have a large website that aggregates content both from the websites and Wikipedia.
Even thought it's someone else content, the way it's combined is unique ad provides a valuable user experience ...
