All you need to know about duplicate content.
Although there is no such thing as a general duplicate content penalty it is difficult to get high rankings for a web page which contents can also be found on other web pages.
If you want to avoid problems with duplicate content, the following tips and illustrations will help you.
What is duplicate content and what do search engines do about it?
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Duplicate content is if two or more different web pages contain the
same or nearly the same content.
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Duplicate content can occur within a single website and across many
different websites.
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Web pages can be considered duplicate even if they are not 100%
identical.
- Search engines want to list only one version of duplicate content on their search result pages.
Search engines want to return as many different options as possible in their result lists. That's why they filter all duplicates in the search results and display only one version.
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How to avoid duplicate content on your on websites
- Hide duplicate content from search engines
If you offer different versions of your website content (regular view, mobile view, print view, etc.) then search engines might pick the wrong variation for the search results.
Add a noindex meta tag to your duplicate content versions so that search engines don't index the duplicate content.
- Require backlinks if you syndicate your web page content
If you syndicate your content to third parties, search engines might favor the version published by one of your partners.
Require a back link from your partners to the original document on your own website so that search engines can find out from which web page the content comes.
Duplicate content can cause problems with your search engine rankings. If you follow the tips above, search engine spiders should index your web pages correctly.
Also make sure that the web page content that search engine spiders index on your website has been optimized so that search engines can give your web pages the best possible rankings in the search results.
Did you know that, after investing thousands, sometimes hundred of thousands of dollars developing a Web site, businesses often discover that the site is nowhere to be found on the Internet? Failing to take your Web site's search engine visibility into consideration when making site development decisions is an untimely and very expensive mistake.
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Over the past seven years, our SEO programs have put more companies on the real track to success by placing their rankings on all major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN and all the others.
Resources
- Google Search Optimization Guidelines
- MSN Search Optimization Guidelines
- Yahoo Search Optimization Guidelines
- Wikipedia: Search Engine Optimization
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