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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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cdn.domain.com indexed by Google. The content is being considered as duplicate content
I am running my website with CodeIgniter framework. I have setup cdn using cname cdn.domain.com which is being indexed by Google. And the content of the both domain.com and cdn.domain.com is having ...
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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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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 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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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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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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How to prevent duplicate content in Google when using state and city in friendlyurl?
I want to provide friendlyurls to my visitors on my venue site.
Visitors should be able to easily type the name of a region to access the venues in that specific region.
Like
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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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Is a backlink with a duplicate description and title from a news site bad for SEO?
I have a blog with over a thousand posts. I have posted some of those to a news aggregator site and included the same preview photo and description that I used for it on my own site and the link to ...
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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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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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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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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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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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How to handle possible duplicate content across multiple sites?
Let's say I have two sites that cover the same vertical/topic. one in the USA and one in Canada. Both sites have local-related content, which is obviously unique by location. However they will share ...
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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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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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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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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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Is it illegal to use content in such a way?
I have a couple of questions about the legality of the content of some websites. I am currently working on two websites and I would like to make sure I am not breaking any laws, by using some content ...
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Universal navigation menu across domains - would it be considered duplicate content? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
Across different sites on different second-level domains exists a universal navigation ...
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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can canonical links be used to make 'duplicate' pages unique?
We have a website that allows users to list items for sale. Think ebay - except we don't actually deal with selling the item, we just list it for sale and provide a way to contact the seller.
Anyhow, ...
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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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How does Google detect duplicate content?
have a quick question about duplicate content. How does google work this all out? In that on my pages I have a form on each page with the same bit of text explaining it, is this going to count against ...
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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 ...
