Avoiding duplicate content issues

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  1. #1
    I have a website that i want to clone and give a face lift. The sites are exactly the same content wise. I'm guessing i will get hit for duplicate content by google. How can i avoid this?

    Thanks.
     
    cesarcesar, Aug 11, 2009 IP
  2. cngamemart

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    #2
    content building is a big problem,and I find there is no good method.
     
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  3. manpasand

    manpasand Well-Known Member

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    #3
    if you want to prevent all robots from indexing then use following meta tag:
    <meta name="robots" content="noindex">

    OR if you want to preventing only Google's robots from indexing the page:
    <meta name="googlebot" content="noindex">

    Through robots.txt use following code
    <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
     
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  4. yfs1

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    #4
    I got a sense the OP was looking to have Google index the second site as well but not penalize it. I may have misunderstood.

    Why are you creating 2 identical sites in the first place? Why not give the original the facelift?
     
    yfs1, Aug 11, 2009 IP
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  5. borber

    borber Well-Known Member

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    Exactly, it sounds queerly. OP doesn't have any way to avoid getting hit for duplicate content in such case IMHO.
     
    Last edited: Aug 11, 2009
    borber, Aug 11, 2009 IP
  6. lunaraurora

    lunaraurora Well-Known Member

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    In this way, you risk to be penalized for every of your 2 sites. Canonical tag is for pages from the same domain, as say yfs1, i suggest "noindex, nofollow" tags for your clone site.
     
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    You can try http://www.copyscape.com/ to know if your articles have duplicate content issues.If you are sure that your content is duplicated,you'd remove your content before any official Penality.
     
    SEOBusiness, Aug 11, 2009 IP