I have many categories on my site and sometimes I post an article and check off two or three categories for it. When I do this, it shows up under a few different URL's, example: http://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/hangover-part-ii-character-posters/ http://wegotthiscovered.com/news/hangover-part-ii-character-posters/ Same article, but two URLs for it, is that bad? If so, would noindexing my categories help me or not really?
all the duplicate content that they show is stuff like this for example: wegotthiscovered.com/movies/mark-zuckerberg-has-all-the-power-in-this-new-tv-spot-for-the-social-network/ wegotthiscovered.com/movies/mark-zuckerberg-has-all-the-power-in-this-new-tv-spot-for-the-social-network/?comments=true or wegotthiscovered.com/movies/matthew-vaughn-eyes-geriatric-superhero-film-golden-age/ wegotthiscovered.com/movies/matthew-vaughn-eyes-geriatric-superhero-film-golden-age/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=matthew-vaughn-eyes-geriatric-superhero-film-golden-age I don't get it?
As long as they are the same content under 2 different urls, they are considered duplicates I think. But I doubt it will affect your SEPR when you put an article under 2 different categories because I do that pretty often and still getting good results from search engines.
No... it shouldn't be counted as duplicate content. Some of the basic CMS systems even generate duplicate pages that way. A website may publish duplicate content in 2 separate sections (Reviews and News in your case).... and I do NOT find any reason why Google should penalize it. A lot of major domains are doing it
I think this will be seen as duplicated content and I believe you will get very little value from posting the same content on 2 URL's. I maybe worth putting a canonical tag within the code to ensure the SE's understand which page is important and which is a duplication. This will allow users to navigate to both pages through the site structure but will provide you with a much cleaner site.
Just goto your cpanel and add the code to the htaccess to make it canonical . Here this tutorial on canonical URL will help .
Sounds like a Wordpress blog? I think Google is familiar with how Wordpress works. Got his from Googles Webmaster Guidelines: Duplicate content on a site is not grounds for action on that site unless it appears that the intent of the duplicate content is to be deceptive and manipulate search engine results. If your site suffers from duplicate content issues, and you don't follow the advice listed above, we do a good job of choosing a version of the content to show in our search results. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66359
yea as per the google webmaster guidelines it is duplicate and lead to negative impact on your website.