A question on duplicate content
I'm wondering how SEs and Google in particular view a single data source being used on a number of sites. To be more specific, a supplier providing a list of product codes and descriptions to be used by various sites. The sites would be independant and other content would therefore be different but the product information would for a major part of any dynamic pages which could be seen as a duplication.
Kevin, my experience is that duplicate content only matters if the duplicate content is on the same site. For instance, if you have two pages that have very similar content on www.yoursite.com. I'm sure others will argue otherwise, but I have seen great rankings from 2 different pages of mine with the same content on two different sites. However, when I have had the same content on 2 different pages of the same site of mine, I only see one of them get ranked.
Hope that helps.
Thats simply because SE index'd only one page. It will only show that page which is indexed first and the second page is not indexed as it is duplicate of the first page.Originally Posted by EricTransue
KevE. You say there will be a number of sites drawing data from a single source.
Does it matter how google treats multiple use of the same data? Presumably there will still be the need to create multiple sites.
Do not worry about google. concentrate on getting the sites drawing the content to concentrate on selling the items. . . Google quite often does not know its ass from its head. If the problems that concerns you actually happens (unlikely In my opinion) get back to WPW and let us have a second look.
Nobody can predict what might happen without a good close look at the sites and how they have used the supplied content.
My opinion
The sites would have to be extremely clumsily built to give you problems
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Tubby as is so very often is the case, spot on here. I saw 5 top search results on Google, all different URL's but all carried virtually the same site description taken from various inner pages. Answer that one!! Actually I can, a lot of them were variations of wiki quotes on the subject matter. I do not support people zooming into wiki and cut and pasting info, but the problem is - it happens more and more. But, I think that is not professional practice. I am certainly not saying that it will do your site any favours. We just live in a cut and paste world.
You mean to say the site that enjoys the authority status will get benefited?
Well think about it. Google has come out and said, we are not that bothered about duplicate content - or could that be a Matt Cutts soundbite? I would not personally risk doing it (not without a great deal of editing and adding fresh content) but the word plagiarism seems not to be in the Google language.
A client of mine has a new site, it draws its description from open range. We have managed to surpass the competition so here is evendence that sites offering the same content as others can still rank highly. If you have duplcate content on your own site you can use the canonical tag to let the search engines which is the mater and which is duplicate.
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.website.com/category/product-page">
I personally don't think that the syndication of content will necessarily detract from your site's ability to rank. After all, data feeds and web services are constantly being created for the explicit purpose of making more data more portable to more sites. A great example is news sites. How many sites have pages built on the exact same AP news story syndicated from the AP feed? These pages all still show up in Google because they are surrounded by different links to related stories, different reader comments, different media and even different page layouts.
What Google is really working to eliminate is complete duplication, where a site is copied exactly, with the addition or replacement of a few ads on a caching proxy site. These are spam sites that try to make money off of plagerized web sites, and when they show up in the listings they reduce the overall user experience. Google does seem to be improving, but is far from perfect at detecting and eliminating these sites currently. It can be tricky to figure out through a completely automated process which is the proxy and which is the original site.
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It will be OK as long as your site also has some original content along with the syndicated content that you will use your website i.e form feeds, etc.. The full content on the web page or website should not be duplicate. Its perfectly fine to use part of the content regenreated form other data sources.
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