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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How similar can 2 pages be before Google de-indexes one of them?
Using Similar Page Checker (http://www.webconfs.com/similar-page-checker.php), you can check if a web page is similar to other one.
Is there any rule of thumb how high a percentage similarity is ...
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How can I create multiple mini-sites with similar/duplicate content without hurting my search engine rank?
Essential background: I run a small company that lets members of the public post handwritten letters to their local politician (UK-based). Every week a number of early stage bills (called Early Day ...
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Duplicating content from another site and adding value (summaries, statistics) - ranking and courtesy
I am working on a site that takes a governmental data base, provides a number of statistical and other summaries and also post the original data.
However this data (mostly long pieces of text) is ...
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Is there a way to do a site-wide 301 redirect or rel=“canonical”
I've got a blog running on a sub domain mirrored using this method on to a sub directory, so that the links come to my main domain not the sub domain..
Obviously this creates duplicate content. What ...
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Does Google penalize pseudo-duplicate pages for different locations? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
My compony's site's home page was not specificly optimized to any location. Now, I am ...
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How does google react to duplicate pages with text in a different language?
If there is a copy of a site in another language, but with same resource filenames, does Google not like the fact that the resources aren't in the same language as the page?
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Can I be penalized for using breadcrumbs and subcategories for similar content?
I am building a new navigation system via breadcrumbs based on categories and sub-categories.
Example 1:
Having url like this:
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Reach Local Proxy Page - Duplicate content?
We have a client who has instructed Reach Local to manage their paid SEO work etc. RL have created a proxy version of the page at http://example-px.rtrk.co.uk which mirrors the existing site ...
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How to tackle this duplicate content issue? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
I've a new website coming up with 1000's of page which will contain some city codes. I'd ...
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Google webmaster tools reporting entire nil subdomain linking to www domain, despite permanent redirect
Looking in webmaster tools it is reported that I have a thousand of so inbound links from my root domain, domain.com, to www.domain.com. This is despite the fact I have a permanent redirect setup in ...
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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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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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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 problem for site with 2 domains [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
I have two domains pointing to the same site. I want both domains to co-exist, they ...
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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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How does google handle plagiarism with a link back?
Is it frowned upon to copy a whole web page but leave a link back? I have seen this countless times where a web site will copy an entire post but leave a link back to the original content. How does ...
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Moving one site in Webmaster Tools to more than one site [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization?
I have a Question and Answer site about immigration. now I divided it into 2 sites:
mysite.co.uk
about ...
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Google indicates that it has “omitted some entries very similar”
I just went to http://www.virante.com/ and entered my website and I encountered this warning:
Google indicates that it has "omitted some entries very similar" to
the top 1000 pages on your site. ...
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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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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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Can mass different log-in pages result in SEO duplicate and/or low quality punishments? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
I have internal pages that rely on an external API which I would like to build upon user ...
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how to find that my written content is unique - in terms of google and user?
how to find that my written content is unique - in terms of google and user?
I also want to know whether updating the content or user commenting on that article helps in seo?
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duplicate content penalties for cross posting?
I have a blog (xyious.blogspot.com) and a website (xyious.com), i'm developing a tiny cms system for my website while posting some content. I always post the new content to my blog as well as the ...
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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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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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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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Tracking pages with variables in GA
Recently I have updated my site, it now passes a variable on some links like so...
www.mysite.com/1234/?play=true
I've noticed in Google Analytics it records www.mysite.com/1234/ and ...
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SEO with duplicate content [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
I have a nature photography site with multiple types of photo galleries. Each photo and ...
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Preventing indexing duplicate content by search engines
I am in process of migrating my old domain (www.oldurl.com) to new domain (www.newurl.com).
Almost all the content,URL structure as well database is same except for few URL's and only difference will ...
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Penalty issue for a duplicate page in site but original page doesn't exist anymore
I've a product page ranking well for a keyword which I duplicated from the company itself which contained faq about it's product.
Now the website has removed that page so mine is the only one ...
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Deleted duplicate pages will search engine ratings improve?
I've just now deleted many pages from my website (with 410 status) which were product pages and copied from respective companies.
Will now search engine rankings improve for my site?
I hope it ...
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Mobile website causing duplicate content issue on Google - how do we fix it? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
My website exists at www.<site>.com for desktop browsers and m.<site>.com ...
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Avoiding duplicate content on database driven site [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
I have a website that returns results for condominiums in different cities. Every page ...
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What is Google's standing on duplicate content in reviews? [closed]
A friend of mine would like to offer his customers a discount if they post reviews of his business on several such sites (Yelp, Google Places, * Pages, citysearch, etc etc). If they copy the same ...
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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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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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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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Removing indexed content from hosting internal subdomain [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to Remove URLs from Google Search Engine
Our hosting provider has a kind of internal subdomain with our domain IP like:
n265-269-265-265.cnet.hosting.iiii
That ...
