Hi! I have a website with a long menu: IE: Car lawyers in Florida Car lawyers in Michigan Car lawyers in Georgia . . . n50 (Around 50 states) As you can see, we have around 50 pages with duplicate content, THE STATE MENU Page structure Unique Title tag Unique Meta tag description Unique text body around 150 to 200 words (few words) Duplicate Manu The pages are new around 1 month, we have got traffic before Christmas, but right now many pages disappear from Google Index and many pages are as Supplemental result. I have used this tool http://www.webconfs.com/similar-page-checker.php to get the percentage of duplicated content, and we got around 78% to 80% of duplicated content for these pages, we compare Car lawyers in Florida and Car lawyers in Michigan Well, right now, I got rid the “STATES MENU†and the percentage of duplicated content is around 40%, I will see if this situation change…. I have other pages with around 19% of duplicated content and these pages are indexed OK on Google I have checked another website pages, and have duplicate content with around 80%, but they have PR3 or PR4 (old pages). Anyone knows about percentage of duplicated content? Best, Jakomo
I do not know the percentage that google uses to determine duplicate content, but I would be interested in knowing as well. You may want to review the second post down here http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/ to read what google has to say about duplicate content issues. These are a few important points from their post: "Minimize boilerplate repetition: For instance, instead of including lengthy copyright text on the bottom of every page, include a very brief summary and then link to a page with more details. Avoid publishing stubs: Users don't like seeing "empty" pages, so avoid placeholders where possible. This means not publishing (or at least blocking) pages with zero reviews, no real estate listings, etc., so users (and bots) aren't subjected to a zillion instances of "Below you'll find a superb list of all the great rental opportunities in [insert cityname]..." with no actual listings. Understand your CMS: Make sure you're familiar with how content is displayed on your Web site, particularly if it includes a blog, a forum, or related system that often shows the same content in multiple formats." By the way, thanks for the link to the tool.
To start with there is no 'percentage' that would topple you. Secondly it is a duplicate content 'FILTER' not a penalty. Just for the record
Hi! Thanks! I know, it is a FILTER, but a duplicate content is like a PENALTY, or please show me an example, where keywords or pages as Supplemental result are ranking top ten on Google. I had many pages ranking top ten on Google, but right now these pages are as supplemental result and I can not find it on Google. Best regards, Jakomo
Technically it's a filter, but if the filter causes a page to go supplemental and not rank for a given term, then in my eyes its a HUGE penalty!