I'm looking for feedback on my situation as it pertains to duplicate content. My web store which resides at store.mydomain.com is identical to 5 or 6 other stores. I don't have direct control over the store and cannot make the massive changes to make it "less similar". I'm guessing that Google is already adjusting for this and pages are not ranked due to the duplication. I'm adding a new section to my site that allows people to "review" products. Although I hate the word, I'm in a sense mirroring items available in my store. The pages are different, but contain a lot of the same content - specs of the products being similar and such. I ran the pages through a duplicate content checker and they came in at 25%. Now, my goal in creating this section was two fold. One, it's going to add a great resource to my site. Two, I thought it might be a way to get well deserved ranking for pages that are not being ranked in the subdomain store. I'd like to use best practices as I proceed. I'm open to comments, suggestions, warnings...etc. Great topic. Very helpful.
I guess the same menu on every page (horizontal top menu) with descriptive links isn't a real DC problem? Also when building a faq section if i would ad the whole question section to every answer page would this be a problem? Thanks in advance Guys.
Duplicate content means a LARGE % age od dup content. If your answers are not making up at least 60% of the page content then you might run the risk of dup content. One thing we have to grasp here though is that the search engines treat dup content across multpile site differently to the way they treat dup content on the same site. YOU control ALL the content on your own site, while content on multiple sites can not be controled in the same way.
I have a concern about duplicate content within my own site. I've created a new user review section. It's templated and the only difference is the features bullet list, manufacturer name. Even when I add different ads on the right hand side, the duplicate content checker rates the pages as having 83% duplicate content. The new section also uses lots of javascript and hasn't been very popular among my visitors -- All of this makes me think it might be best to scrap it. Here's an example: Headset page #1 Headset #2 These weigh in at 74% on the duplicate content checker. Once a review is written, that seems to cut it down significantly.
Does anyone have any input on inherent risks of creating "similar" pages within my site. I'm thinking about modifying my directory of reviews and I'm concerned the pages will look very similar. Thoughts?