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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Duplicate Content Problem due to plugin
Actually i am running website on wordpress where i have installed Transposh plugin on my site 'example'. Unfortunately, despite having English as the default language and therefore available at ...
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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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SEO for ecommerce site with no product description and large inventory
We are building a ecommerce with a inventory of about 6000 products, the problem is most of the products have the same description so we decided to keep description as noindex and make it available to ...
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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 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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SEO value of duplicating content externally
I run a website that includes a blog which was hand-coded by myself and is hosted on the same domain.
My partner in this endeavour thinks it would be a good idea to open up a Blogger/WordPress blog ...
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How to use the canonical tag for multiregion websites and duplicate content
We want to use the canonical tag for an multiple region website with the same content.
For Example:
www.example.com/services.htm
www.example.com/uk/services.htm
Then if we use the canonical tag ...
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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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How to avoid duplicate content in WordPress eCommerce Store
I run a WordPress eCommerce store powered by WooCommerce. I have a large inventory of products and most of the product descriptions are the same for all products and it's mandatory to include it. It's ...
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Check for duplicate 'id' values in a HTML page
I am developing a web application and I would like to check for duplicate id values in a HTML page. I am running the application on my local machine.
There is a way to do that?
P.S.: I am using ...
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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 use rel='canonical' properly
I have 3 URLS that serve the same data:
www.example.com/product/foo
www.example.com/product/foo?id=1
www.example.com?product=foo
For Google's sake I want the URL www.example.com/product/foo to be ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Avoid penalties for duplicate (multilanguage) shared hosting
My concern is about SEO. Now let me explain the scenario.
I am making a 3 languages website. The development is alright, but I was targeting local customers with one domain, and international ...
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rel=“Canonical”: Ranking Benefits ? & specifying for PDF?
I think I understand the basic case for using rel="canonical": to tell Google which is the preferred URI when the same page/content may be accessed via more than one URI.
This helps you avoid ...
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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 ...
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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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Is it considered duplicate content when search results can be retrieved via 2 different urls? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
I'm building up friendly url's like so:
http://www.1001locaties.nl/trouwlocaties
But ...
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Can duplicate content on a .com and a .co.uk site impact google ranking? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
Can you please tell me if launching a .co.uk version of an English .com site can cause ...
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Increase traffic to a site through a site on subdomain [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Subdomain versus subdirectory
We have two sites, one is mainly a portfolio site (built with Yii framework) and the other is a digital shop (built with open cart) where ...
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www and non www can suffer duplicated content
Do you know if i should use canonical tag, or 301 redirection from
http://mydomain.com to http://www.mydomain.com
To avoid duplicated content penalty in case other pages link to the domain without ...
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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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How to redirect domain.com to www.domain.com with DNS and IIS?
How can I redirect example.com to www.example.com using DNS / IIS? I wish to do this for an asp.net web site to prevent duplicate contents (Bad for SEO).
I had 2 a record in dns (Windows Server ...
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Webmaster Tools - Preferred Domain and Google entries
Our client has two websites with the same content:
example.com
somethingelse.com
When a user searches in Google for "something else" the example.com site appears in the top 10 results on Google. ...
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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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How to re-direct Wordpress posts with 301
All my WordPress post URLs generate sub directories with duplicate content and I do not know what regular expression to use to consistently 301 redirect domain.com/category/post/random-number/ to ...
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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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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 ...
