Comments on: Importance of avoiding duplicate content

by: Alex

Tue, 06 May 2008 23:05:51 +0000

On one of my website I always write my content myself (in dutch) and copy some english description into it. The website is now 4 months old and even on the long tail of some uncompeted words I can’t find my website or website pages? So penalized Google my whole website?

by: Steven

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:09:21 +0000

If you write your own content carefully (and let’s assume nobody *steals* it), chances of getting a penalty for duplicate content are small right?

by: Peter van der Graaf

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:37:20 +0000

@JW: yes they all require somewhat unique content for all 90 offices!

@berlin: Duplication is mainly about text. HTML differences don’t matter that much.

by: Berlin Sport

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:34:56 +0000

You must see not along content you must see full Site ( Html) it is Unique ?
most yes. Affiliate sites have the same Problem( the same script )

by: JW Bobbink SEO

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:24:40 +0000

How about the problem when you have 90 offices from one main business who all want their own website so they can rank on specific, geographical concerned, keywords but you don’t want to write really unique content for every website?

by: Peter van der Graaf

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:09:20 +0000

Another comment I’d like to add: Keep the content per URL consistent. So do not shuffle it around on every spider crawl.

by: Ramon Eijkemans

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:28:09 +0000

This is a smart insight that can help a lot of websites with a lot of content in roughly the same format. The example of job sites is valid, so are many webshops and many, many affiliate sites. Keeping text unique above the fold, shuffle keyword-rich duplicate text in other parts adds body and keywords.

One step further would be to shuffle entirely new pages over and over again (don’t forget to keep an eye on your server load ;))

I think the most efficient way to deal with stuff like this is a combination of both your article as a whole and your statement in the end: hire cheap copywriters, let an experienced seo editor review it and shuffle the rest!

by: Matt Bee

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:06:43 +0000

Good to read from you again! Great article.
Hopefully this will solve all duplicate content issues for once and ever (for all you lazy webmasters out there).