do i have a duplicate content issue?

i was sent an email from some guy and he told me i had major duplicate content issues on my site and it's affecting my page rank. i thought it was weird, because all the content on my site is submitted from visitors, but this worries me. did i duplicate pages or something?

my url is http://www.thelovequilt.com

 

There is no need to worry, many sites has duplicate content. Sometime a product has several colors and size, so there is possible for them to seems like duplicate content. But as the administrator, you have the right to delete some duplicate if you don't want.
Good luck.

 

This is exactly google trying to wipe out from them and may be this is the primary reason behind the recent change in their algorithm. Yes, i would say its not good to have duplicate content in your website. It may be ok if you had some short snippets of content as duplicate but having complete site as a duplicate content is not a good idea. You got to change your strategy now !. Things were easy earlier for people who are not keen on writing content, but its no more a cake walk for them now with google

 

How do I delete that duplicate content?

 

I know that it's not good to have duplicate content, but I have no idea why I have it or how it happens.

 

Lots of media companies send out press releases to many outlets. That is duplicate content by some standards. I think it is important to point out that not all information is intended for single/unique distribution. So I guess you need to judge the nature of the information you are creating and who the intended user is and make a decision on where and how it is distributed.

Google slaps have good intentions but not always the best results.

What is you take on this?

 

I'm confused with that this has to do with my issue.

 

I was asking if my site specifically had duplicate content issues. I think since I use Wordpress, each of my posts are being indexed as their own pages for some reason. Is that the case? I'm not really sure how to check and make sure. Someone please help.

 

If you build autoblog be careful, if not it's not a problem at all. I have site with duplicate content and its pr 4

 

i do not have an autoblog, but visitors make posts on my homepage themselves.

 

Don't believe the duplicate content myth.

 

What is that myth?

 

To Check duplicate content use http://www.copyscape.com/, this is the great tool to find duplicate content.

 

You can have duplicate content because some other site has the same articles as you.
But you also can have duplicate content because multiple urls on your site show exactly the same content, in that case you can give those urls a rel="canonical" tag

 

Have you seen my site? It is posting all the boxes on my page as their own page. Is there an easy way to apply that tag to all of them without having to do it for each one?

 

There are so many Site Out There which have duplicated their content with other sites, But you have to change your content on immediate basis, Try to write unique and fresh content.. The Latest development in this regards that Google has recently introduced Farmer Algorithm which check the quality of content so qualitative content plays vital role in the long run..

 

That actually is a problem, and you should use canonical links to solve that.

But GoBuckeyes02, the problem with your site is all the pages like http://thelovequilt.com/?attachment_id=3029 are indexed. I'd noindex, nofollow those.

 

How do I make them unindexed?

 

I'm not sure what your code looks like, but somewhere so it ends up in the headers you're going to want to have some code that's something like this:

<?php
if ($_GET['attachment_id'])
    echo "<meta name='ROBOTS' content='NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW'>";
?>

Code (markup):