Duplicate Content!?

I see that a lot of websites have the same disclaimer or privacy policy page, will Google see this as a content duplication and penalize my site??

 

I dont think So,

Because one of my client is using same content for his two websites. And both have good PR.

According to me google can check easily that who is owner and if you are putting same content there then its ok. If you are using any other persons websites content then it can penalize you.

Dont know google algo but i am telling you with my practical knowledge.

Yeah, i am agree also that if you are vary your content up to 20 to 30% then it consider as unique content.

May be some experienced persons can describe it better ........ because i want to know also truth of duplicate content from self site or any other persons site.

Thanks

 

I have high PR sites with same content and ... let's guess? How much traffic from them? Nothing

High PR is nothing.

 

one page don't matter much though I personally advices (and I myself this) to block privacy policy and similar pages from robots.txt or from noarchieve meta tag.

 

Duplication will be problem whatever the cases. Gogle will not kick u out completely, will not get enough result according to the effort. So avoid duplicate if doing like privacy add nocatche in meta tag or add in robot.txt

 

Consider building a page solely for your privacy policy with a nofollow link. That way, it won't get indexed.

 

I think that's okay... It's not considered as duplicate content.

 

Poseidon & Mauik offer the best advice. Just block access to the file using robots.txt or a nofollow link (or both if you are a little paranoid... )

Also, it will not be the site that is penalised, but rather the actual page with duplicate content. In which case - are you really bothered that your Privacy Policy is not ranking? I wonder how many conversions it gets...

 

not a problem.

 

Ask youself this. Are the sites in reference, with the same privacy policy content being penalized by Google? If they aren't, you likely will not be either.

Google says if you are using content from another site, try to make it a bit different - don't just copy word for word. If you are using a 'canned' privacy policy statement, do some creative re-writing. It's EASY to do!

Or, if you are worried about being penalized (which I do not believe you should be), I would recommend what another person said in his or her answer above; add the privacy policy to only one page, and add a "noindex, nofollow" tag to the page.

If it were me, I would just re-write the privacy policy to make it my own unique content.

 

How do you add a nofollow tag to those pages?

 

just you can add this tag.

<a href="http://www.yoursitename.com/" rel="nofollow">name of your page</a>

 

No, I don´t think it will have any affect.If you are worried, re-write some of the text on the disclaimer page.

 

High PR does not Mean High Traffic !!!

 

PR is for long term, you can sell your website for high prices if PR is high especially with high traffic.

 

that's a nice idea, thanks poseidon. I do it now.

 

yes my PR0 site have higher trafic than my PR3.

 

the kind of "boilerplate" text you refer to is not a massive issue - plenty of sites with this type of content rank across many verticals. It becomes a problem when you have low link popularity or little other content on the page.

 

Make sure you disallow any duplicate content with the robots.txt or robots meta tag. And then deindex the page (if already indexed) by removal request at the webmaster tools. Otherwise it will be rated as duplicate content nonetheless.

 

google hat duplicate content