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What does Google have to say about duplicate content?
What does Google have to say about duplicate content?
Ooops… I should not have repeated/duplicated the title… hope they don’t penalize this blog!
Happy New Year! Wow! It’s 2007!
OK, so I have been doing a good amount of research recently on Google and Duplicate Content.
It appears that they finally have addressed the issue publicly and their policies have been quietly unveiled.
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So far I just created 3 posts on this topic.
1. My conclusion about how “boilerplate repetition” as Google puts it, may be the reason some of my pages have been delegated to “supplemental status”.
Uh oh! Templates and blocks of text repeated throughout a site may be hurting us! Are you using disclaimers or privacy policies in your template? Or maybe have repeating tips and or resources??? That may just trip an alarm!
Quote:
“Minimize boilerplate repetition: For instance, instead of including lengthy copyright text on the bottom of every page, include a very brief summary and then link to a page with more details.”
Wow… that made a light bulb go off…
“bolierplate repetition”
OK, this could be a problem for us… Google appears to be cracking down on the use of ‘boilerplate repetition” and cookie cutter premade sites and templates in general - especially ones that have footprints… ie easily identifiable sections of code/text that may have been used by “abusers”.
So if they find a SPAMMER who had pages that they penalized and/or banned a site and they noted an identifier such as <-- insert your spam content or article content here --> they can use that to find other spammers.
That’s a footprint. Any repeating block of text or code is. That includes HTML code.
So if there is a template you have that other spammers have used or may use, it could be trouble for you… especially if there are many premade cookie cutter sites that have the same duplicate content in addition to the template.
“bolierplate repetition”
The above quote concerns me because I tend to employ a strategy on my pages, whether using a template, or original designed pages, that has a universal disclaimer… Yes. I use disclaimers on all my pages… at least I have been…
What they are suggesting is that if you have a block of text that you use on your html template that appears on many pages on your site is that it could trigger a duplicate content penalty, such as relegating your page to supplemental result status…
Sooo…. that made me realize that many of my pages have BLOCKS OF TEXT on them that are repeated… that could very well be why some of my sites that use a common template across many pages have been supplemental…
The question is… if I do as they suggest and remove that BLOCK OF TEXT in my disclaimers or sidebar quotes for example, will that be enough to get the pages back to the normal index (not supplemental results) ???
Hmmm… food for thought…
2. I found a video interview with a Google employee where she discusses what duplicate content is and whether it is a penalty or can make Google look upon your site negatively. She says no penalty. Decide for yourself.
http://videos.webpronews.com/2006/12/06/vanessa-fox-clarifies-the-role-of-google-sitemaps/
Vanessa Fox discusses sitemaps, pagerank and duplicate content.
Google says they do not give a “penalty” for duplicate content… hmmm… ok… sure.
3. The actual blog post text where they discuss their filtering methods’ and reveal why and how they look at dupe content.
What does Google have to say about duplicate content?
Here we have some insider talk about how Google looks at duplicate content. Keep in mind this is their public presentation and they surely have some secrets that are kept to themselves. But apparently a good number of webmasters ahev been concerned about this issue and have prompted them to make public a response.
*from the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog*
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/12/deftly-dealing-with-duplicate-content.html
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Best wishes for a great year, Mike
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Sirjesse
Comment by sirjesse — January 4, 2007 @ 1:57 pm