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 and News - How do SE's treat them?
I am planning to start a news website wherein I will be syndicating news from News Distribution Services and Press Releases. What most Webmasters in this field do is to directly copy (or atleast 95% ...
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Same page in different “locations” on same site - duplicate content? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
The same page, or rather the same content on a page is accessible from two very similar ...
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241 views
How to cross-link multiple sites with duplicate content that is search engine friendly?
I am in the scenario where I have my content duplicated over multiple cross domains. I don't want to get penalized for my original site by Google for it. So what is the best option to avoid this. I ...
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Is mysite.com and blog.mysite.com treated as one?
I have a site, say trusty.com and it's blog is blog.trusty.com. Please note trusty.com and blog.trusty.com are both hosted with different hosting companies and have different IP Addresses.
If I have ...
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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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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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108 views
Cleaning up the mess with SEO and conversions in mind
I'm having some kind of a unique situation here, but at the same time it's the typical mess web-beginners create.
I took over a project for an event-company and at the moment they're having several ...
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1answer
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Duplicate content for sub domains i.e. example.com/subdomain/index.php seen the same as example.com/subdomain/ [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
I have a website with some sub domain folders and seomoz is picking them up as both ...
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53 views
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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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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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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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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How to remove duplicate content, which is still indexed, but not linked to anymore?
A bug in the tool, which we use to create search-engine-friendly URLs changed our whole URL-structure overnight, and we only noticed after Google already indexed the page.
Now, we have a massive ...
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How to stop Feedreader fetching content from my site using iFrame?
As you all can see from the picture below, my site's content is duplicated by FeedReader (using iFrame) and indexed at Google. When I clicked at the FeedReader link, it uses some sort of iFrame to ...
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Preview content on website linking to full page, SEO strikes for duplicate content? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Do search engines treat index pages with excerpts as duplicate content of the pages they link to?
I have a press section on a website i'm developing. It has about 10 ...
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258 views
How to do with out-of-date or expired pages
I have a "classified advertisement" website that user can submit their advertising posts on it. Each post will be valid for 3 weeks. After then the post will become "expired". Expired posts will not ...
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194 views
Content appearing under multiple categories; anything I can do to prevent duplicate penalty? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
I'm working with a CMS that allows me to post content in to multiple categories.
So, I ...
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1answer
299 views
Same content over multiple sites
I have an account on wordpress. I am writing blogs there. Now I have published my same blogs with same content over DZONE and geekswithblogs.net and few other . Now my question is whether the SEO ...
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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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Separate urls for a set of pages sharing 80% duplicate content
Issue:
Currently my site has one particular page which has country specific data. So I've URLs like :
mysite.com/sale-united-states
mysite.com/sale-united-kingdom
mysite.com/sale-sweden
etc.
All ...
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1answer
53 views
Is this content duplicated? or or weak content? [closed]
firstly, my google webmaster tool said that i have 313 index. but if i search with site:, i only get 72 content.
from this url, it said may because data not yet transfered from other server. ok its ...
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Using other's contents in your website
How can I use someone other's article/post on my own website? What is the legal way of doing this? Usually what I do is that I mention the source from where I got that post. Is there any other way? ...
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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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Blog comments duplicate content paradox
I have a blog on this page:
domain.com/Blog/5/some-title
Below the blog entry it says, "click for comments".
You click the link, and it goes to:
domain.com/Blog/5/some-title/Comments
For user ...
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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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116 views
How to disallow indexing but allow crawling?
In the front page of my website, I have some previews to articles (with a small introduction to them) that link to the full articles.
I want to disallow the front page to prevent duplicate content. ...
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2answers
202 views
Tidy URLs in Google Analytics
My Google Analytics is catching a number of URLs where there is a unique GET parameter.
It also catches URLs like /pay and /pay/.
Is there any way I can get it to clean up the data and just see ...
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2answers
671 views
wrong duplicate meta descriptions on webmaster tools
We have recently moved our site to a new platform with a different structure. We placed the correct 301 redirects from old pages, but also, some pages include 302 redirects for language-specific ...
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455 views
what's better for SEO : a 301 moved page vs an alias?
I recently optimized my site changing the keywords but also the path to those pages (I'm using human readable urls)
So google will not find those pages anymore...
what's the best aproach in this case:
...
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2answers
359 views
International TLD's vs. duplicate content
I currently work at a pretty big website that has visitors from around the globe. My job is to help out on the SEO, and one thing we've been discussing lately is the use of international TLD's. The ...
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SEO - why did my google search rank drop?
My nutrition shop websites for tampa and brandon were coming up on page one of google search results and now they have dissappeared. The 2 websites serve different markets although they are close ...
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Duplicate content in Top Level Domain and country specific website
I have myproduct.com which is my master product page.
For UK I also own myproduct.co.uk which is a copy of myproduct.com with some localized content: landing page, promotions, prices, and specific ...
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How to write a blog for SEO purpose
I have a photo sharing website, which provides very little textual content. Users can add tags to photos and a description, but it creates a lot of duplicate content, because most of the descriptions ...
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Duplicated content in Google. Same subpage different link [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
At my website I can access published posts by two different types of links. For example ...
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How Citing Sources in Website Content affects Google Rankings
I am planning to scour various press releases from the web (particularly from science companies) and directly copy the material into my website. According to many of these companies, the press release ...
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1answer
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Redirecting domains to prevent duplicate content [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
I have 2 domains:
www.company.com
and
www.product.com
I like both domains, they ...
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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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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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2answers
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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Could this be considered duplicate content? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
I'm building a dating site at the moment. On the homepage I have a paginated list of all ...
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Should single product pages generated from affiliate product feeds be “noindexed”?
We plan to import tens of thousands of products from affiliate product feeds to a brand new site, where each product will have its own page with identical title and description as the original. I ...
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2answers
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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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2answers
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What % of a page needs to be unique in order to prevent duplicate content penalties?
I have a site with uses a some content generated by myself, some from users, and some from a source such as wikipedia. The wikipedia sourced content is unmodified but makes up no more than 30% of the ...
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2answers
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Copied page but why it is ranking first in Google SERP?
I'd published an article with the permission of the author. But when I search in Google from India for title: "How to Test Payment Gateway Functionality" my site is ranking first eventhough it is a ...
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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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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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53 views
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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1answer
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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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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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