SEO > SEO: Duplicate Content
May. 13, 2008 at 8:00am by Elliance
Search Illustrated: How A Search Engine Determines Duplicate Content
With so much good content on the web, it's inevitable that the same information will be displayed many times over. Whether it's a blog post pointing to good statistics, an RSS feed pulled into a complementary site, or blatantly copied material, duplicate content can be an issue. This week's...
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Mar. 12, 2008 at 7:59am by Dave Feldman
Got Duplicate Content? Don’t Let It Dilute Your SEO Efforts
"Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink," laments a sailor adrift in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The poor guy needs water to say alive—and he’s surrounded by it— yet if he drinks it, the salt content will kill him. As a search marketer,...
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Aug. 21, 2007 at 11:23am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Site Explorer Adds Dynamic URL Rewriting Tool
The Yahoo Search Blog announced a new Site Explorer feature that enables webmasters to inform Yahoo about dynamic URLs that might be creating duplicate content issues or crawl barriers. The new feature is named "Dynamic URL Rewriting," and it allows webmasters to view potential duplicate content issues and have Yahoo...
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Jul. 19, 2007 at 12:06pm by Shari Thurow
Understanding Search Engines Duplicate Content Issues
I admit it. I am a search engine geek. Because I have a passion for understanding search usability, one of my particular interests is duplicate content filtering. If you want to really irritate searchers, present the same content to them in all or most of the top 10 positions...
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Apr. 10, 2007 at 5:44pm by Danny Sullivan
FeedBurner Tips On Avoiding Duplicate Content
What's Up With That? Vol. 3: SEO at the FeedBurner blog answers a number of common questions people have about how search engines interact with web feeds, based in part on FeedBurner having consulted with Google and Yahoo. Among these are tips on easing duplicate content concerns....
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Mar. 15, 2007 at 10:00am by Jill Whalen
The Duplicate Content Penalty Myth
One thing that has plagued the SEO industry for years has been a lack of consistency when it comes to SEO terms and definitions. One of the most prevalent misnomers being bandied about is the phrase "duplicate content penalty." I'm here to tell you that there is no such...
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Mar. 2, 2007 at 1:45pm by Danny Sullivan
The "About 260" Problem: Google Site: Command Glitch
Dave Naylor noted yesterday that Search Engine Watch appears to have largely disappeared from Google, at least when performing a site: command search. Today, Marketing Pilgrim notes a weirdly similar thing happening to another site and points to an interesting Webmaster World thread on what could be called the...
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Feb. 6, 2007 at 10:10am by Barry Schwartz
Google's Debated Penalties & Filters Roundup
Over the years, there have been dozens if not hundreds, of theories on possible Google penalties and filters being used in the Google ranking algorithms. Joe Whyte provides an excellent roundup of many of those filters and penalties that the search forums have debated over the years. I am not...
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Jan. 2, 2007 at 6:44am by Bill Slawski
New Duplicate Content and Mapping Patents from Google - January 2, 2007
Google was granted new patents this week on a methods for estimating similarity between web pages and documents which may help to filter duplicate content, and upon a digital mapping system which appears to be the foundation for Google Maps, and has a number of related map-based patent applications in...
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Dec. 29, 2006 at 1:32pm by Danny Sullivan
Of Disappearing Sex Blogs & Google Updates
Last week, Barry Schwartz reported there seemed to be a Google update going, based on forum activity he was seeing. Google's Matt Cutts quickly followed up with a short refresher on the difference between algorithm updates, data refreshes and index updates. The purpose was to explain that any changes some...
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Dec. 18, 2006 at 5:58pm by Danny Sullivan
Google's Tips On Duplicate Content Worries
Over the past year, I've heard more and more worries about duplicate content issues. It's a serious concern site owners have, though sometimes I fear the worry is out-of-proportion to the reality of people actually getting hit by duplicate content penalties. Others may disagree. If you are worried, Deftly dealing...
