Does duplicate content within own site affect SEO

Hi,
I want to know does duplicate content within own site affect SEO. For example i am working on a client site which address is this http://www.chummuch.com/restaurants-in-delhi, so i want to know if i seperate the delhi location in area wise like chummuch.com/restaurants-in-delhi/pitampura so this can result in duplicate or not because content of pitampura is taken from chummuch.com/restaurants-in-delhi.

 

From my own experience I have found that duplicate content didn't have an effect on my SEO traffic, but it did, however, get traffic sent to pages I would have preferred they didn't come in on.

Lets say I have a food site and the recipes are all duplicate content scattered across single pages, the index page (if they are currently featured), category pages, tag pages, archive pages, etc...

Google might decide to send a visitor looking for "vegan eggnog" to my archive page. It won't have other vegan recipes on it. It also won't link to other featured vegan recipes. In this case I would have rather they come to the single page for the recipe or to a category page for vegan holiday recipes so that their time on page, bounce rates and number of pages viewed would score better.

 

Hi,
V_Rocks
Actually my case is different because i have same content within my site, but different urls and titles so can this be resulted in duplicate content.

For more details you can see my question above and started thread.

 

Those two pages would share duplicate content according to Google's bot. Which page shows up in the search can depend on various factors though. For instance, if someone searches for a long tail term it might show one page over the other based on words on either page matching better to the long tail term used.

However, the amount of content is negligible. Notice this Yelp search:
http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=indian+food&find_loc=La+Crescenta+Montrose%2C+CA&ns=1
http://prntscr.com/26pspb

It has varying levels of duplicate content. But it uses excerpts and only gives a partial amount of information on the results page so that it avoids having redundant content. In reality redundant content is what Google is hoping to avoid. Why show 5 sites and/or pages as the top 5 results to a search if they all have redundant content? Meaning, the same information rehashed to look different, but in reality doesn't give any new information.

This is why sites that accept user reviews like Yelp and Amazon have systems in place to move users with a unique way of writing informative reviews to the top of their results. That way they get different content that isn't redundant like small reviews like this one: "Clean place with good curry. You will love it."

What you could use a lot more of is content. Actual content. Not just numbers and figures, but descriptions and reviews. I can foresee your site becoming quite popular with Google if you could get readers to signup and participate. Which is why Google likes Yelp, Pintrest, etc...

 

Hi,
V_Rocks
As many portal sites like grotal also doing the same thing as we did so can it be bad for our site and i also want to know that if i have only 20 restaurants in our city listing than if we divide these 20 restaurants in to 4 different titles like if we have 20 restaurants in chandigarh and our title is restaurants in chandigarh now if we divide these 20 restaurants by having titles like
chinese restaurants in chandigarh = 5
non veg restaurants in chandigarh = 7
veg restaurants in chandigarh =8
means out of above 20 restaurants we insert 5 restaurants in chinese 7 restaurants in non veg and 8 in veg so my question is can i do like that or not and will it affect my seo and my client adsense accout or not.

 

Hi Rakesh,

It won't affect your site because you are just providing the information related to restaurant location that's all. Except that if you provide long information with lengthy content same on two different pages , than it surely hurt your site.



Thanks

 

Hi, Arpit

I also want to know that can it be duplicate for google adsense or not because duplicate content is not allowed in google adsense.

Regards
Rakesh

 

Having on-site duplicate content will definitely have an effect on your site's SEO. Especially if they're spattered with links and over optimized with keywords - than you can expect penalties. In most cases, the original would be considered more relevant and indexed, while the later "duplicate" version would simply be omitted from the results. So, the question you would want to ask yourself, is why you'd want to have duplicate content on your site when ultimately only the original would be indexed and searchable? You could always take the time to re-write the content to avoid this altogether.

 

Hi Rakesh,

Yes it will definitely count as duplicate in adsense also.

Thanks

 

Definitely! You should not use your same content in several pages. This may get listed as duplicate for not showing in search.

 

Hi, Make Sure that all your pages have unique content , & do not have the same content for the two pages within the site. Duplicate content makes you penalize your site & does it affect the ranking.

 

Well, I definitely affects SEO !!

 

I know all pages in your site must have unique content otherwise your ranking suffers, but my question is different as you can see the thread question above. So please try to give answers which are relevant to my query because i am also from SEO field and knows everything about seo.

 

Hello Rakesh,

We all have suggested you answers according to your question. If you have any more query, please read Google Guidelines.


Thanks

 

well yes, it can result in duplicate because what you are doing is creating two pages and putting the content of http://www.chummuch.com/restaurants-in-delhi, to chummuch.com/restaurants-in-delhi. so when google crawler crawls, i will looks two different pages having same content. I would rather prefer you to use method something like iFrame. I hope you know about iFrame if not then feel free to ask me ! Now i guess i have answered your question correctly !!

 

No john my question is if we have 100 restaurants in particular city like title is restaurants in delhi and url is abc.com/restaurants-in-delhi now if refine the delhi restaurants sector wise like title is restaurants in sector-17 delhi and url is abc.com/restaurants-in-delhi/sec-17 and question is refining the data sector wise is considered duplicate because abc.com/restaurants-in-delhi/sec-17 is refined from abc.com/restaurants-in-delhi

 

I will answer all your questions but first could you please tell me If a person falls from 1st floor and at the same time if a person falls from 4th floor. Tell me the differences in their screaming ?

 

Yeah, Duplicate content in self site affect SEO process...

 

all the portal sites are doing like that even grotal and zomato too and adsense is running on that sites too if doing these things are duplicate than why not adsense is banned from these sites.

 

It is because they are using the concept of iFrame (I have already tried to explain it to you in my previous post).