Duplicate content (on other sites)

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by zorro7444, Dec 9, 2008.

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    Let say I review a product using 100% unique content. If the product has been reviewed on numorous sites even if my content is unique I will likely be saying about the same thing as other sites. Do I need to do better than other sites or can my content be similar?
     
    zorro7444, Dec 9, 2008 IP
  2. vansterdam

    vansterdam Notable Member

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    Content can be similar. That's to be expected across websites offering similar products or services. Duplicate content is only an issue when the content is exactly the same or mostly the same.
     
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    i have heard that google doesn't like duplicate content here is what it says in there guidelines
    Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely match other content or are appreciably similar. Mostly, this is not deceptive in origin. Examples of non-malicious duplicate content could include:

    * Discussion forums that can generate both regular and stripped-down pages targeted at mobile devices
    * Store items shown or linked via multiple distinct URLs
    * Printer-only versions of web pages

    However, in some cases, content is deliberately duplicated across domains in an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or win more traffic. Deceptive practices like this can result in a poor user experience, when a visitor sees substantially the same content repeated within a set of search results.
    www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66359
     
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    purdue512 Well-Known Member

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    Yes. That is what Google says. Indeed.
     
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  5. zan15

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    what if two different domains have same content? Lets say, there is a company having 2 different domains with different geographical locations and it wants to have the same content on both the sites. Reason being that the company offers its services in different countries and wants different sites for different geographical location.

    How can it affect the ranking? Is there any other way to represent the company's functioning for two different countries? Can sub-domains help here? For e.g. For US the subdomain can be US.abc.com and for UK it can be UK.abc.com... Can this work?
     
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    You can't really avoid duplicate content, but it's good if you're content is the first in google indexed.
     
    Hersheys, Dec 9, 2008 IP