&#101 - cure for duplicate content??

How does Google see characters like &#101 (shows up as e)?? Say you place articles on your site that are also on hundreds of other sites, and change every e to &#101. Would Google see it as unique content, or still compair it to the same article on other sites?

$whatever = preg_replace('/e/mi', '&#101', $whatever);

$whatever =~ s*e*\&\#101*g;

 

Converting your text into HTML character codes? Then google will read your page as the html character codes rather then convert them to text.

You can see that because when you put in the charcter code for arrow it actually reads it as the code #

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q="&#8658"&btnG=Search&meta=

 

I'm just doing it to one letter to hopefully get around the duplicate content penalty on some new Amazon AWS sites. And we all know every thing there is duplcaite content. Just the reviews will have the changed 'e'.

 

Thats actually not a bad idea. You could attempt doing synonyms with words and adding extra works. Might sound a bit wierd sometimes but would make sense.

 

Nintendo, why limit it to one letter - why not implement it to 2-3? it should add more uniqueness, no?

 

if google sees it as a character code, that would make your page descriptions look really spammy:

ie. &#101v&#101ry k&#101yword pr&#101tty much has an '&#101' in it.

 

So the script isn't changing hundreds of characters, to be server load friendly!!! These won't be static pages.

Only the review part of the product pages will have them, so hopefully the description won't get it too much.
Example:
dumb-ppc-ads.com/amazon/reviews-B0001YYNL2-page-2.html

 

Thats pretty much what some of these content re-writer scripts do. They re-order an article and use a thesaurus to replace certain words.

You end up with something that sounds like it was badly translated from another language.

 

Nice!!!! Now I got hemorrhoids!!!!! What's next, diabetes, gout, cold sore??!!! ugggg!!!!

 

Nintendo, I hate to say it, but you asked for it. Google must have caught your last post, for these are the ads I see:

 

Thanks to your thread, I've found a cure.






(I've also done the re-writing thing with "I " -> code)

 

I am seeing diabetes ads as well, hehehehe. It says in another thread it has hemmoroids, ha

 

Arg!!!! Am I a curse!!! Now the text ads show...Dandruff and Cancer cures!!!! I'm da King when it comes to having snow flakes...aka...Dandruff!!!!! grrrrr!!!!

 

Did anyone see an improvement doing this? Something I thought of is instead of changing "e" or "i" why not put the character code for spaces and punctuation. Or how about adding code by replacing "." with ". <div></div>" ? Would that be enough to not trigger the filter?

Does google see the code or what actually appears to the visitor?

We should run a test... If possible... Does anyone have some pages that they know is triggering the dup content filter?

 

Sites with the HTML code changes are just now starting to show up in Google.