Why doesn't Amazon.com get hammered for duplicate content? http://www.relentless.com ( owned by Amazon: http://who.godaddy.com/whoischeck.aspx?Domain=RELENTLESS.COM ) http://www.amazon.com Yet they appear to have no penalty. Guess the big boys are exempt from Google's rules.
First, it's amazon and not some small-time website. And it could just be that relentless.com just redirect to amazon.com At any rate, you shouldn't worry about what amazon does and does not.
Can you show us the rankings for a couple of keywords that show both sites being top 10 on Google? Also, don't forget that big sites can preferential treatment from Google.
I don't care what Amazon does at all. My question is really about why Google gives special treatment to certain sites and not others which is why your are reading this under the Google section of DP. I understand Amazon is a very large site, but why should that matter when it comes to dup content?
Amazon are a large adwords advertiser, is it worth pissing them off because of dup content if it means losing millions in ad revenue?
1.) Because they pay lots of money + fill google's SERPs with relevant results. Remember that Google is a business not a magical fairy land where everything is fair. 2.) They are treated like any other trusted site with duplicate content... half of the content is dropped from the serps. I can't even the site when I do a "site:relentless.com"
Uhmmm... what? As someone who is in SEO it is his problem and his right to worry about what every website does as it is relevant to his business.
Really, why not? Study the big boys and learn from them! The rules are the same for everyone. Notting
Yes, it appears they are: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=wholesale+poncho&btnG=Search&meta=cr=countryUK|countryGB Just look at eBay's presence in the top 20: #3 clothes.listings.ebay.co.uk #4 and 5 wholesale.listings.ebay.co.uk #7 cgi.ebay.co.uk #8 and 9 stores.ebay.co.uk #11 crafts.listings.ebay.co.uk #12 wholesale.search.ebay.co.uk Sad state of affairs...
Dont see this as any particular suggestion that they are exempt. There are only 21,000 results returned for that phrase so i don't understand haw an inference can be made from it. If we believe that the organic results are tampered with then we should all give up now and do something else! Notting
It may not be the best example but it's only one of many. Definitely in AdWords they have double standards and are all too cozy with their big buddies. Just look at the eBay ads that land in empty search results. That is in direct violation with Google's TOS yet they do nothing about it.
Brian from Adsense was just on Net Income last night talking about how great eBay's landing pages are. He basically said eBay was a great example of how to do arbitrage using adsense.
i believe that google is not exact criteria about dublicate content and amazon web site is pr 9 . this makes their dublicate content , unique
don’t know if you have noticed all links go to amazon.com/whatever so its just a 1page site and its not dup contend look at that site and the homepage of Amazon different items / content plus its Amazon if I was Amazon I would expect special treatment too that’s y everyone it trying to become big to get the money and special treatment. I don’t think you would mind if you have gotten special treatment.