Unavoidable duplication?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by guitarbinge, May 22, 2008.

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    Hello,

    I know you should always try to make content as high quality and unique as possible, but what would you do in the following blogging scenarios?:

    1. you are quoting another source (giving credit of course - not scraping/spamming), and the quotations happen to be very long and thus make the blogpost seem to be made up of duplicate content

    2. You have a blog about lyrics and interpretations and you post the lyrics themselves-- i made a metallica lyrics blog once and it was quickly sandboxed and eventually pushed into supplemental and then dropped and i have a feeling it was because the lyrics were seen as duplicate content...

    any ideas on what to do?:(
     
    guitarbinge, May 22, 2008 IP
  2. itcn

    itcn Well-Known Member

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    One idea is to try breaking up the long blocks of duplicated content with images with unique alt tags.
     
    itcn, May 22, 2008 IP
  3. Mooyman

    Mooyman Peon

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    You can tell the spider not to crawl that section with !nofollow command in your robot.txt
     
    Mooyman, May 22, 2008 IP
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    aira Active Member

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    1.The remedy would be breaking the whole content into blocks (as mentioned by ITCN), then you can include your own ideas or thoughts in every particular blocks.

    2.That's actually one of the problems with lyrics sites.. To make your lyrics blog different from others, try to add some details about the song, album, artist or band, and other related info
     
    aira, May 23, 2008 IP