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Originally Posted by ArthurNYC
I own a large network of review sites and for the past 3 years we have done a dance with Google where all of a sudden they bump everything up to a $10 Min Bid and we are done. Over three years it has happened 3 times and every time we slightly change the URL (s, -, ...) and go back to work. The issue we have is that we never get natural listings.
Three months ago the site was redesigned by a top level SEO guy for us and we are getting natural listings all over the place. (If anyone needs a recommendation, PM me as he did a great job). But now we got whacked by Google again with a $10 min bid (please do not try to analyze the reason for this, even our reps only say it has something to do with the landing page, we have been on every forum, spoken with every rep at any partner company and we get no real clear answer).
So now the question is, how do I leave the OLD site live (the one that is getting natural listings) and do PPC on a new URL. There are hundreds, if not thousands of pages of Unique content but it is now duplicated and that will eventually catch up to us and hurt natural rankings.
How do I completely stop Google (and others) from seeing the PPC site and listing it in their search engines? If it never gets spidered, never gets listed, then I assume/hope the natural listing site will not be penalized for duplicate content.
Thanks in advance.
BigFish |
Hi, Sorry, but it was bit difficult to perceive your exact problem. Please clarify whether you are facing issues with duplicate content or PPC bidding ??
As far as duplicate content is concerned, it is a serious issue. People on several blogs argue that duplicate content is just a filter and not penalty. Moreover they will justify that duplicate content only gets added into the supplement index.
However the real question is what will happen to all those pages linking to a particular page ( which has been perceived as duplicate by google). The fact is that all those links connected to duplicate page will loose their rankings,
PR and will eventually die down.
It is best to avoid duplicate content filter in the first place. If google detects any then remove every instance of duplicate content from your website.
It will help you score higher rankings on both Google and Yahoo.