http://www.commentaryweb.com/internet/google-now-allows-duplicate-content-with-new-content-tag/ Google announced that they will now accept duplicate content with webmasters making use of the new rel=â€canonical†link element. This may be a good thing for some webmasters, but worrying as many unscrupulous webmasters may take advantage of this in stealing content. What do you think?
Well, they don't quite "allow" duplicate content. What rel="canonical" does is tell google that the two pages are related and that only one of the pages should appear in the SERPs. It's a great improvement over having to no-follow, no-index duplicate content.
I also read about it. Well let say someone steal content from my blog and use rel="canonical" tag on his content so who will get credit on search engine?
The person who uses the tag will get the page indexed. The others will not. This is why there are some concerns.
thats actually old news. it is usual that on a blog where tags are used, multiple pages will have the same content. by using canonical url, you tell google which one is the original content page. it not allowing dup content, its telling google where to look for the main content page out of many of the same
Yes of course this is exact thing, even duplicate is not allowed from day when there was no concept of canonical links, but canonical tell google that crawl this page instead of that duplicate page, you can place canonical in pages like, you have 1 page and that is seen from different ways as, index.html then same page with out index and then again same page without www.
Then it is a valid question, what if someone copies all your web pages and add canonical links to all their pages they stole from you? Which one will Google index? This just opens the whole business for abuse...
The canonical tag was meant for internally use only. To help search engines index right copy in case you have more than one, that is all. Just because someone puts tag on stolen content does not mean google will go for it. So far only sultanofseo gets the idea of this tag which is an old news indeed. I mean think about it , if you copy say, CNN content and tag it with canonical do you really expect google to pass you as the content creator?
This is quite unfair for those who do a lot of work to be able to write a valuable content. I personally don't think this is a good idea. Google should be able to trace the original author and that author's site or blog should appear in SERP.
i dont think its good idea.. B'coz a person will be in loose who create valuable/freah/original content..
One would think Google can figure out which page is the original from the date each page is published!
duplicate content to google is the same page being found on your site in multiple instances. like blog.com/?p=1 and blog.com/hello-world blog.com/archive/1 etc. copied, scraped, etc content is called spam to google not duplicate content.
Interesting article. I don't see this making much change on the amount of content already being stolen though. It's good to see the new tag though, anything aside from nofollow is a good thing, lol..