how are you beating the duplicate filters with your feeds?

i'm having issues trying to get G to keep my content indexed ... it's aws. it sucks it all up, but slowly the pages are gutted out.

any ideas?

 

Is the content your's?

Is it exclusive to your sites?

 

Not sure what you mean. I notice sometimes when the linkage changes, the page might get uncached

 

Seems to me like maybe they are comparing the amount of dup content with original content. If there is no original/real content then they will hose you. If you have original content on different pages or on the same page with the feed content, then you will get some pages indexed. Maybe 10 pages for every one page of real content. That is just what it looks like to me.

 

these are amazon stores ... they, like any other datafeed affliate design all share the same content

 

It's hard to get around the duplicate content issues with Amazon data unless you want to write your own reviews or content for each product. I do that for some books and DVDs, but it's an impossible task if your site features the range of Amazon products.

I read a post a while back on another forum where someone recommended setting up a "synonyms" filter to change words throughout the content to other words with similar meaning. I'm not sure what the ramifications of this are, but most of Amazon's content tends to be related to reviews and therefore you are changing other people's words. Also, the content could easily turn into gibberish with this method.

 

interesting ... but surely sketchy. writing my own reviews aint happening ... it has to be automated.

 

yeah write your own reviews for those 40,000 books

 

Add AdSense to the feeds which might give G an incentive to not make them Dups.

PS What's up with the spacing in your sig?

 

as if i'd run a site without it in the first palce

IME - that doesn't make a difference

 

I wasn't talking about the site. I was on about the feeds. But I see you're talking about feeds you pull in... For some reason (must have been confused with other thread) I thought you were providing feeds. Never mind.

 

What about combining two feeds, is that possible? and running coop ads if your not already doing so, the more differences from the original content supplier the better.

 

I'm combining an Amazon script with relevant RSS feeds and seem to do OK with indexing though it's nowhere near its full potential. Make sure you have dynamic Titles and META tags as well and ideally seemingly static URLs.

 

Does your pagecount go up and down like skattabrain's does TOPS?

 

I don't monitor it closely so I judge by Co-op weight only and that stays stationary.

 

So it appears the RSS feeds may be enough to bypass any duplicate content filters, interesting.

 

I had a closer look and it doesn't look that good:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?sour...-8&oe=utf-8&q=site:site.theaquariumshop.co.uk

My guess is that with a URL rewrite it will improve but I don't have a direct need to address this unfortunately.

 

In all honestly, I'm not real convinced a dupe content filter is out there. I mean, RSS feeds could conceivable propogate identical articles across thousands of sites. How can you filter for that? And waht about articles sites, free or paid, where you can purchase content to host on your own site? Press releases? Product descriptions? And how would a search engine know which is original and which is dupe?

Say you have a cool article on widgets on you site. I swipe it and post i on mine. Mine has more pages indexed and a better page rank and has been around longer. Who's is the dupe?

I think any sort of dupe content filter can only be applied on a domain level, not across domains.

 

Ok, I don't run an affiliate site so I am a noob at this, but I am curious what it is that you are offering on your site to make it unique. I think I read you saying that you just take the amazon store and publish it "as-is". If so, then it would seem to me that the duplicate filter is doing its job as your site really IS just like the rest of em.

If you are not writing reviews or adding your own content, then what makes your site different, not a duplicate, of other sites? Why should someone buy from you instead of one of the other sites? Do you sell the product at a reduced price or something?

 

skatta,

with a little modification, you can add real content to amazon affiliate pages. I do it on 3 sites.