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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What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
This is a general, community wiki question regarding duplicate content.
If your question was closed as a duplicate of this question and you feel that the information provided here does not provide a ...
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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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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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Can a mobile version of site be considered duplication by Google if the page is the same only the css is different?
Hearing about the problems with mobile browser detection I plan to add a button to my site which enables the users to switch manually between normal/mobile version of the site. The button sets a ...
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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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Do search engines treat index pages with excerpts as duplicate content of the pages they link to?
I am using WordPress and in my post sidebar I have related posts which may be of interest to the user, however, I also have an excerpt of each article which is normally the first paragraph of the post ...
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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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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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Will content from my site's RSS feed that is published on other sites be considered duplicate content by search engines?
I know Google is giving a penalties for websites with duplicate content.
What happens if I'm having an RSS feed with news articles and other sites publishes on their website my news? Isn't it ...
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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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Are multiple results from a website search considered duplicate content? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
The website is a Magento store , but I believe this applies to any product search.
We ...
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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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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 ...
