{"id":58,"date":"2009-09-25T05:35:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T12:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bizwaremagic.com\/weblog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2019-10-23T07:57:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T14:57:01","slug":"the-tricky-issue-of-duplicate-content-what-google-says-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bizwaremagic.com\/weblog\/2009\/09\/25\/the-tricky-issue-of-duplicate-content-what-google-says-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tricky Issue Of Duplicate Content &#038; What Google Says About It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BWMagic&#8217;s Internet Marketing News!<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span> <span><\/span><br \/>\n<b><br \/>\nThe Tricky Issue Of Duplicate Content &amp; What Google Says About It<br \/>\n<\/b><br \/>\n<span><\/span> <span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t know about you but one of the most worrisome issues has<br \/>\nto be duplicate content. I am mainly worried about my content<br \/>\nbeing ranked lower because the search engines think<br \/>\nit is duplicate content and penalizes it.<\/p>\n<p>Now, for my major keyword content\/pages even a loss of just a few<br \/>\nplaces in the rankings can mean I lose hundreds of dollars in commissions,<br \/>\nso anything affecting my rankings obviously gets my immediate attention.<\/p>\n<p>The whole tricky issue of duplicate content has caused me some<br \/>\nconcern and I have made an ongoing mental note to myself to find<br \/>\nout everything I can about it.<\/p>\n<p>My situation is compounded by the fact that I am heavily into<br \/>\narticle marketing &#8211; the same articles are featured on hundreds,<br \/>\nsome times thousands of sites across the web. Naturally, I am<br \/>\nworried these articles will dilute or lower my rankings rather<br \/>\nthen accomplish the intended purpose of getting higher rankings.<\/p>\n<p>I try to vary the anchor text\/keyword link in the resource boxes<br \/>\nof these articles. I don&#8217;t use the same keywords over and over<br \/>\nagain as I am nearly 99% positive Google has a &#8220;keyword use&#8221;<br \/>\nquota &#8211; repeat the same keyword phrase too often and your highly<br \/>\nlinked content will be lowered around 50 or 60 places, basically<br \/>\ntaking it out of the search results. Been there, done that!<\/p>\n<p>I even like now submitting unique articles to certain popular<br \/>\nsites so only that site has the article &#8211; thus eliminating<br \/>\nthe whole duplicate content issue.<\/p>\n<p>Another way I have handled this issue is using a 301 re-direct<br \/>\nso that traffic and PageRank flows to the URL I want ranked.<br \/>\nYou can also use your Google Webmaster Tool account to show<br \/>\nwhich version of your site you want ranked or featured:<br \/>\nwith www or without the www.<\/p>\n<p>The whole reason for doing any of this has to do with PageRank<br \/>\njuice &#8211; you want to pass along this ranking juice to the appropriate<br \/>\npage or content. This can raise your rankings, especially in<br \/>\nGoogle.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, there is the relatively new &#8220;canonical tag&#8221; you can use<br \/>\nto tell the search engines this is the page\/content you want<br \/>\nfeatured or ranked. Just add this link tag to your content which<br \/>\nyou want ranked or featured:<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span> <span><\/span> <b><br \/>\nlink rel=&#8221;canonical&#8221; href=&#8221;http:\/\/www.example.com\/product.php?item=swedish-fish&#8221;\/<br \/>\n<span><\/span> <span><\/span> <\/b><span><\/span><br \/>\n<span><\/span> <span><\/span><br \/>\nAnyway, this whole duplicate issue has many faces and sides,<br \/>\nso I like going directly to Google for my information. Experience<br \/>\nhas shown me that Google doesn&#8217;t always give the right information,<br \/>\nbut for the most part, you can follow what they say. Lately, over<br \/>\nthe last year or so, Google seems to have made a major policy change<br \/>\nand are telling webmasters a lot more information on how they (Google)<br \/>\nrank their index.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re concerned or interested in finding out more about<br \/>\nduplicate content and what Google says about it try these helpful<br \/>\nlinks:<br \/>\n<span><\/span> <span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Video &#8211; Duplicate Content &amp; Multiple Site Issues<\/p>\n<p>This video is presented by Greg Grothaus of Google and<br \/>\nis quite informative on the subject. <span><\/span> <span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span> <span><\/span> <span><\/span> <span><\/span> <span><\/span> <span><\/span><br \/>\nAnother great link is this page from Google Webmasters Support Answers<br \/>\nby Matt Cutts. It has a lot of helpful information, including a<br \/>\nvideo on the Canonical Link Element.<br \/>\n<span><\/span> <span><\/span><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s located here:<br \/>\n<span><\/span> <span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span> <span><\/span> <span><\/span> <span><\/span> <span><\/span> <span><\/span> <span><\/span> <span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kind Regards,<br \/>\nTitus<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.bizwaremagic.com<\/p>\n<p>If you truly found this article and content to be helpful,<br \/>\ninformative or totally entertaining &#8211; could you please Bookmark<br \/>\nit in some of the Social Network with the AddThis button.<br \/>\nI will thank you and the SEO Gods will thank you!<\/p>\n<p><b>Don&#8217;t forget to BOOKMARK &amp; SHARE this PAGE &#8211; <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re worried about duplicate content, then find out what Google is telling webmasters they should do about this tricky issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[113,112,110,75,111,646,87],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-visibility","tag-canonical-link-element","tag-canonical-tag","tag-duplicate-content","tag-google","tag-greg-grothaus","tag-internet-marketing","tag-matt-cutts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizwaremagic.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizwaremagic.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizwaremagic.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizwaremagic.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizwaremagic.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizwaremagic.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2755,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizwaremagic.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/2755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizwaremagic.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizwaremagic.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizwaremagic.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}