Melanie Prough | May 26, 2009
The “duplicate content penalty” myth is one of the biggest obstacles I face in getting web professionals to embrace reprint content. The myth is that search engines will penalize a site if much of its content is also on other websites. Clarification: there is a real duplicate content filtering issue for content that is duplicated with minor or no variation across the pages of a single site. There is also a “mirror” filter for a site that is more or less substantially duplicating …
Category: Duplicate Content |
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Tags: Clarification, duplicate conetnt penalty, Duplicate Content, duplication, Mirror, Myth, Quality Content, reprint articles, Search Engine Traffic, Search Engines, Traffic Experience, Web Traffic
Melanie Prough | May 12, 2009
Google is all over duplicate content, they will penalize you for it, either by remove some or all of your sites pages from it’s results. But what is duplicate content? Unfortunately until Google works the bugs out its a fairly complicated matter. The biggest problem is, Google doesn’t tell you there is a problem, you can set up Google Alerts on your domains and addresses, but that’s no help for code, and template duplication. So I
Category: Duplicate Content |
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Tags: Bloggers, File Names, Generators, Google, Google Webmaster Tools, Google Yahoo, Meta Tags, Paraphrase, Preferred Domain, Protocol, Robots, Text Content, Yahoo
Melanie Prough | May 2, 2009
A redirect takes visitors from one page to another. Search Engines have traditionally looked at redirects very suspiciously, and for good reason. Redirects can be used to trick visitors in to viewing content they didn’t expect or want. It is for this reason that the SEO rules governing the use of redirects have become very strict.
Category: Duplicate Content, SEO General |
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Tags: Canonical, Meta, Redirect, Search Engines, Seo, Server Side, Spam, Supplemental Index, Url, Webmasters, Yahoo
