Hi all, I'd really like to know if this would be considered duplicate content by G. Say I have a site that promotes a service to the people of London: www.londonXXXXXXXXXXservice.co.uk I do a page with the details of the service on it that targets say North London. Can I then have a page which displays exactly the same details except instead of saying North London in the title and keywords etc. it would say South London etc. And then the same for East London and West London? Is this duplicate?
yes it will consider as a duplicate content as u will edit only north london to south london and south london to east london... best solution is try to rewrite content such a way that it's meaning will remain same and sentence will rearrange..
It's certainly duplicate content. If you rewrite this content with your sentences there is no problem.
Hmmm, interesting. I know of one site that has over 300 pages that are all the same except for the town names!!! A quick check shows the pages to be 99.6% duplicate!!!! And it's been going for over 2 years - how come G hasn't pulled the plug on it?
Take this into account: And give this a good read: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66359
Yes, I've read that before. What other reason would oit be done for other than to get more traffic etc? The site I'm talking about uses just 2 keywords and comes top for something that gets over 500 searches per month.
G probably won't pull the pages down but they would probably end up supplemental and get no significant rankings or traffic
My experience has been that if a site has duplicate content it is only hurt if the duplicate content is used on many sites. I built a site in the format of a site that I bought using free articles. I found the best I could at finding the best articles and the site did well until Google frowned on it. The first site was doing well still and in comparing the two sites, the difference was that the first site had 4 or fewer duplicates (other sites on the web using the same article) and the one I did had as many as 200 duplicates. I would do a minor rewrite for each area and not worry about it unless you plan to area sites right out to Cornwall. Make your titles and meta tags unique for each site as well.
You should be able to get away with minor duplication. Like tbarr mentioned, change up the title tags and re-write a bit of the content to add *some* fresh content to it and you'll be fine.
Ill suggest you to have a fresh content than to edit small things.. Google might see this and it'll end up as supplemental result.
Lots of 'rules' that knock around in the SEO for google world are not 100% enforced. It is just same as speeding or stealing, you only get in trouble if you get caught. obviously the best way is to not break the rules and then you dont run the risk. the number of times I have heard 'x site does it and they are not banned' as a means to try and disprove a particular 'rule' you could try and rewrite the stories with an infuser or MLM script, in my experience though these are not too good. or you could also try sending the article to an offshore article depositry and getting them to rewrite them, I would think you could get them done for a few dollars.
Well, yes. But surely every time the Gbots visit the site in question it must be more than obvious that over 300 pages have 99% duplicate content. Yet if 2 sites on the same server have maybe 75% duplicate one of them gets a kicking. Still confused over this one.
i think google will index those pages but it will not send any visitors. google may put those pages to the supplemental index