duplicate content

Hey everyone! so a website has the homepage URL with a trailing slash and without, both indexed by Google. 1) The site owner runs into the duplicate contnent issue. 2) It is easier for competitors to spam one of the URLs without getting noticed/hack. I am sure about the first statement...

Hi mate ! All privacy policy page are very similar, so I hesitate to not indexed the page but at the same time I think having a privacy policy page increases the credibility on the google eyes What about you? I think Google is smart enough to know that it is a legal page and do not do any...

In my niche, a competitors site (which ranked super well) was shut down. Dont know the reason but its now parking on an empty server. I used web archives to copy everything from the site. If I use this content on my money site, does google know my content is duplicate? And if the answer is yes...

Hi, I have product descriptions that are the same as on some other online stores. Do search engines index links with duplicate content. How such duplicate content impacts on my seo activity. Is it possible to rank high sites with no unique product description. I will try to rewrite product...

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has any idea how google looks on recipes? Many sites has same recipes (ingredients, directions etc...), so is it duplicate content? Is it ok to have on site same recipes like many other sites or ebooks? Thank you

I am attempting to improve my electrical contracting website. I wanted to do geo-local service pages for each town and zip, for example GFCI Smithtown XXXX1,GFCI Jonestown XXXX2, etc... If I included an infographic that explained how a GFCI worked and or saved lives does this affect the...

I just read a blog post on QuickSprout. Neil says that if you syndicate your article from your own site or post snippets to other sites, your site will be hit by duplicate content penalty. His observation is based on his own site - QuickSprout. Though his data supports his claim, yet I'm not...

Your website has 100 articles. You put each of those 100 articles in PDF files and put those PDF files into your website. Would Google consider this as duplicate content?

Nevermind, figured it out.

Evil of IM word Matt Cutts said ,"Google Begins Rolling Out Panda 4.0"................. Lots of people scared about this update ..........Already lots of webmaster lost their traffic and ranking ............... impact is huge and seems to me ~7.5% of total queries

I have a webshop with many products that are really similar. Therefore I have a warning text of 225 words which is similar for every product and need to be placed on the page as product regulations. How to deal with this? I were thinking make a image of it so Google won't index, but that looks...

A mate has a diversified service business. He had a few ads on Gumtree (Australia) each advertising a specific niche (but also listing all his other services at the end of the ad) and they all worked well for him. Recently his account was stopped on the grounds he had "multiple ads...

I am trying to make an Authority Website, but am moving to a Wordpress CMS. Should I delete the old site and then put the articles from it up right away or wait for them to be de-indexed? I don't want Google to think I have duplicate content. -Thanks

So I have this theory. Its farfetched for sure, but its crossed my mind lately so I wanted to get some insight on it. From what I understand about duplicate content penalties in google, if google sees the same content on different websites, the first website it found it on won't get a penalty...

Hello everyone! I am currently helping to construct a new eCommerce website for an ironmongery company, and I am trying to work out how to avoid duplicate content with different product variants. For example, we sell a certain type of door closer that comes in various finishes, but apart from...

Hey guys, This would be my first post here, but I had a question, and figured, from all the things I've read here, you would all know the ins and outs of it. If, as they say, that the Empower Network and the other paid blogging platforms have be de-indexed. And if as Ismyblogworking' s site...

Hi guys, I just wanted to know some opinions on hosting two or more websites on the same server that are quite similar in content. For example: Site A: Contains data about IP addresses - contains millions of pages about IP addresses and locations. Site B: Contains data about IP addresses but...

Did you guys also noticed that? I just made a thread a while ago and tried to find the thread on google. I typed the "title of the thread" and the first 4 site on the results page are other website full of BHW content, threads , replies everything. Why is it so? Is that a plugin they're using to...

Hey guys I have an important question about SEO that I haven?t seen answered anywhere. No one seems to know definitely. Does duplicate content that contains a link to a money site pass the same amount of link juice/power than if the content was completely unique? So for example if I copy and...

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2196162/Move-Over-Xenu-Make-Way-for-Screaming-Frogs-SEO-Spider-Review (Link to great review of screaming frog). Hi guys I been looking for some software that could check all my sites, without me copy/paste everything 1 article at a time into some program...