The SMX Confernece was in Sydney Australia last week, and one topic discussed by representatives of both Google and Yahoo was that of duplicate content filtering across international domains. Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz notes that while the subject has been discussed in the past, many people including experts in the field have been in the dark.
Google Discusses Duplicate Content
If concerns about duplicate content have got you up at night, Google wants you to return to bed and get some sleep. The search giant (re)addressed the issue this morning, and the average honest webmaster has little to worry about.
MSN Search Fights Duplicate Content
Live Search – aka MSN Search – has been showing some of the most aggressive duplicate content filtering I’ve ever seen across any search engine of late.
I first noticed it with a client who is performing well on Google, but has dropped down significantly on MSN.
The main problem is that he’s in a market that relies on affiliate content – and it’s the same content all of the affiliates are using.
Ways Webmasters Create Duplicate Content
At the recent SMX Advanced Conference in Seattle one of the big sessions was on duplicate content. There is great blow by blow coverage in posts by Vanessa Fox and by Chris Boggs.
SMX Day 1: Duplicate Content Summit
Moderated by event organizer Danny Sullivan he gave a brief introduction of the panelists (Vanessa Fox (Google), Amit Kumar (Yahoo! Search), and Peter Linsley (Ask.com), and Eytan Seidman (Microsoft), like the geeks in the room needed to be reminded.
SMX: Experts Discuss Duplicate Content
The second session from the Search Marketing Expo in Seattle was focused on the issue of duplicate content.
Avoid Duplicate Typepad Homepages
I had a client recently ask me about a blog that was using TypePad’s domain mapping feature and it was causing duplicate homepage URLs for the blog.
Duplicate Content – The Need for it
First, what is duplicate content?
Duplicate content is republishing similar or the same information on multiple pages of a website or publishing the same content on multiple domains.
Duplicate Content of Biblical Proportions
It is Sunday although I am not a very religious person, thus I was, horror of horrors, outside shovelling snow around. It was drifting, and if I hadn’t done anything with it, it might have blocked the driveway for my wife Monday morning. Does your mind wander when you are doing a physical job that doesn’t require much other thought? Mine certainly does. Duplicate Content of Biblical Proportions
Fixing Duplicate Content Issues
Not all webmasters are aware that search engines view each URL as a different page, even it has the same content or is different from the other URL by ending with a slash or if it preceeded by a www or not. To serve only one version of the page to get the deserved traffic, you’ll need to remember a couple of things about fixing URL issues.