I am just wondering if it is possible to get a dup content penalty removed from a site that may have that penalty in Google? Anyone have any experience with this?
Is this a site that is getting a duplicate penalty because Google indexes both www. url.com and url.com or is it because you have used content from someone else. If its the first one, then all you need to do is set up a 301 redirect (i.e. tells Google that the site has moved permanently). If it's the other, then I suggest taking down the duplicate content. Skinny
It is a site that has much of the same content as another site. I am working on giving it unique content. Once the content is changed, do you think Google will start to show it again? It gets tons of hits from googlebot every month.
I think so. I read somewhere that you have a good chance of being re-indexed once you take off the duplicate content. As long as the site is changing and your content becomes different, I think the filters will be automatically removed. It's just software after all so it won't take it personally. Not sure on the timeframe though.
once you replace the dup content it will show up in google. When google sees dup content, it just ignores the page. Once you get original content on there the page will show up.
BILZ is correct. There is no duplicate content "penalty" per se -- Google just indexes one instance (I believe usually the oldest). Remove one of the duplicates and the other will in time get indexed. You can help speed the process by using redirects from the site where you are dropping the articles to the new site where you are retaining them and want them indexed.
Agreed with minstrel and BILZ. I've had pages jump right to the top once the site/page had unique content.
Thanks for all the good insite. BTW The one site shows great. This is a seperate site that copied a lot of the content. My guess is Google has caught the duplicate content and is not showing this site. It is fully indexed and does have a nice PR. Just won't show for any large keywords. I am mixing up the content now and little by little it is getting different content.
I have a couple of questions. I've just implemented the latter solution. like so: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [L,R=301] Code (markup): it seems to work fine, i've heard though that i need to change links to folders to include a trailing slash. my question is: is this true and if so, does it also apply to links which are htaccess created permalinks? (since its a fair amount of work which if possible i'd like to avoid)