Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'duplicate content'

The Google AdSense for Feeds blog announced they will be tagging your FeedBurner feeds with Google Analytics parameter tracking. I have been seeing this for several blogs for the past few weeks already. Basically, this means, Google is appending variables...

Posted on November 16, 2009 8:39 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread has new discussion around using the hash tag, in the URL, instead of dynamic parameters such as questionmarks and the like for special tracking purposes. Typically, tracking URLs for ads and campaigns lead to URLs with questionmarks,...

Posted on October 21, 2009 9:14 AM

Last week Google updated their verification process for Webmaster Tools. A known issue was that it broke the ability for Google Sites to verify in Webmaster Tools. Yesterday, Google resolved the issue and now Google Sites can be verified without...

Posted on October 9, 2009 9:00 AM

About three weeks ago, Google added parameter handling to Google Webmaster Tools. It basically gave webmasters another tool to help communicate to Google any duplicate content or URL issues. I spotted two threads from the same webmaster, one at HighRankings...

Posted on October 9, 2009 8:49 AM

A Google Webmaster Help thread has confirmation from Google on an old topic in SEO, the trailing slash. Here is the quick answer: seroundtable.com is the same as seroundtable.com/seroundtable.com/page is not the same as seroundtable.com/page/ I believe the last time...

Posted on October 9, 2009 8:43 AM

A Google Webmaster Help thread asked if he should include fragments (i.e. the # signs found in some URLs) in the new parameter handling feature in Google Webmaster Tools. Again, parameter handling in Google Webmaster Tools gives you a way...

Posted on September 25, 2009 8:58 AM

If you login to Google Webmaster Tools, click on site configuration, then on settings, you will see a new option for "parameter handling." Here is a screen capture: This basically allows you to tell Google which parameters in the URL...

Posted on September 17, 2009 8:49 AM

Many sites feature a way to print a page of your site in a printer friendly view, by removing many of the ads, removing a lot of the navigation and so on. The issue with this, in some cases, is...

Posted on August 25, 2009 9:08 AM

An interesting Google Webmaster Help thread discusses the old and new way of handling duplicate content. In the old days, you either 301 redirected page A to page B, when there was duplicate content. But if that wasn't possible, you...

Posted on June 4, 2009 8:50 AM

Gab Goldenberg from SEO ROI posted a thread at Google Webmasters Help discussion forums when he noticed Google began to drop his rankings for all his pages. I have been tracking the thread for about three weeks, but held off...

Posted on May 14, 2009 8:17 AM

Yesterday, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft announced together a new way to handle internal duplicate content issues with a new "canonical" header tag. Vanessa Fox does an excellent job explaining what it is all about in her piece at Search Engine...

Posted on February 13, 2009 9:25 AM

A Google Webmaster Help thread points out an interesting bug of some sort in Google. A webmaster asks about a particular site that seems to have flooded Google with tons and tons of subdomains. Since the site is already "outed,"...

Posted on January 2, 2009 8:15 AM

A Google Webmaster Help thread has discussion around a webmaster who noticed Google is treating his mobile site as a duplicate site to his main site. This user has his mobile site on a subdomain of m.domain.com, where his main...

Posted on December 30, 2008 8:38 AM

Over the course of the past few months, I have hearing buzz from the forums and from people in the SEO industry that Google is dropping pages out of their index. How do these people know? Well, when they do...

Posted on November 17, 2008 7:58 AM

Andy Beard started a Google Groups thread asking why Google seems to be handling tagged pages (tag cloud results) in a "fairly random fashion." Andy goes through examples of how Google sometimes indexes these pages, sometimes shows a cache page,...

Posted on September 26, 2008 8:07 AM

The Google blog has officially said that they prefer that in most cases, you should not use rewrites to change your dynamic URLs to static looking URLs. In my opinion, this is a major 180° on basic SEO practices. SEO...

Posted on September 23, 2008 9:27 AM

Friday, Google posted a blog post named Demystifying the "duplicate content penalty". The blog post basically describes what many of us have been saying for a long time. Google does not typically penalize for duplicate content, but duplicate content can...

Posted on September 15, 2008 7:59 AM

I have a client with a very large database driven site. The site is extremely crawlable, which makes for a really nice amount of pages for very specific search terms. I cannot share the site I am talking about, because...

Posted on July 22, 2008 8:31 AM

A Google Webmaster Central blog post by Sven of the Search Quality Team addresses underlying concerns regarding how Google handles scraped content. In the two scenarios discussed, one (duplicate content within your domain) can be controlled. The other cannot. However,...

Posted on June 11, 2008 9:56 AM

Now that Google admitted to crawling JavaScript and forms SEOs and Webmasters need to be aware of how to manage even more duplicate content issues. In the past, a good strategy was to build out filter pages (filter by color,...

Posted on April 30, 2008 8:01 AM

Jill Whalen discovered through several site audits that Google appears to have merged the index page with the root page of the domain. In other words, if your www.domain.com was the same as www.domain.com/index.html and you still linked to www.domain.com/index.html,...

Posted on March 31, 2008 9:25 AM

At Cre8asite Forums, Barry Welford is a bit peeved. See, he has this blog post that was ranking #1 on Google, and all of the sudden, he was bumped down to #2 from a site called FeedRaider.com which simply regurgitates...

Posted on January 9, 2008 8:56 AM

So who likes finding duplicate content more? Or who has the most to gain by finding duplicate content - Google or Copyscape? The forum members on Digitalpoint are having an interesting conversation on the differences in the ways Google and...

Posted on October 4, 2007 12:38 PM

A WebmasterWorld thread asks a question many bloggers and writers ask themselves. What if a site is routinely stealing your content and links to your site as the original source. Plus, in this case, the site that stole your content...

Posted on August 9, 2007 7:50 AM

What happens if you have two identical sites with thousands of duplicate pages (18,000, to be more exact) indexed on both domains by search engines? Should you combine the pages so that there's no penalty for duplicate content? This is...

Posted on August 8, 2007 9:34 AM

While doing a website evaluation for a client who hosts his website on Microsoft IIS, Ogletree noticed that Google was indexing a bunch of URLs that did not seem legitimate. These URLs were in the form of adding parenthesis between...

Posted on August 7, 2007 10:19 AM

A Cre8asite Forums thread asks the question, does search engines rank (or index) an individual forum post or a complete forum thread in the search results? The simple answer is that search engines simply index pages. So a thread is...

Posted on June 25, 2007 7:00 AM

Duplicate Content Summit Moderated by Danny Sullivan Speakers: Vanessa Fox, Google; Amit Kumar, Yahoo; Peter Linsley, Ask.com; and Eytan Seidman, Microsoft Live Eytan Seidman of Microsoft is up first. Why duplicate content matters - on a search engine side and...

Posted on June 4, 2007 2:46 PM

This past Sunday I launched a new element for locating content at the Search Engine Roundtable, I launched the Search Engine Roundtable Tag Cloud. Ever since we upgraded to the new version of Movable Type, which supported tags, I have...

Posted on May 17, 2007 7:31 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums post links to an interview Eric Enge had with Google's Search Evangelist, Adam Lasnik. In the interview, Adam discusses paid links, nofollow links, duplicate content and crawling, validated pages and how they are handled by the algorithm,...

Posted on May 4, 2007 7:01 AM

As the discussion on duplicate content drones on (to the dismay of some), it's only natural that some really excellent how to guides come about. Part of the duplicate content discussion is the best way to avoid domain and canonical...

Posted on January 8, 2007 11:51 AM

Here are some takeaways from Adam Lasnik's latest post at WebmasterWorld, see post number 3208854 or post # 70 in that thread. Boilerplate content is "huge swaths of text repeated on every page, such as an obnoxiously long legal footers"...

Posted on January 5, 2007 7:28 AM

Another duplicate content thread with a different perspective at WebmasterWorld. Google has been awarded a patent for a 2001 submission of an application named Methods and apparatus for estimating similarity. The patent is a relatively short read compared to others,...

Posted on January 3, 2007 7:57 AM

I love the advice admin, tedster gives one member in a WebmasterWorld thread. The member describes that he has several pages, all with the same content, but sorted differently. For example, he has a page on pineapple chairs (love going...

Posted on December 21, 2006 8:04 AM

The eleventh edition of the Search Pulse has now been archived. We were able to discuss in detail about half of the topics I wanted. This week, we had on Eric Ward to discuss one of the most discussed topics...

Posted on December 20, 2006 7:01 AM

It seems like we can not get away from the topic of duplicate content. A recent post at the Google Webmaster Central blog named Deftly dealing with duplicate content by Adam Lasnik, gives more insight (possibly) to what is duplicate...

Posted on December 19, 2006 7:37 AM

A huge topic at the SES conference last week was duplicate content. The definitions and how search engines handle duplicate content has changed a lot over the past few years. So that is why I dated the title of this...

Posted on December 12, 2006 7:35 AM

A featured WebmasterWorld thread goes over the technical issues specifically with WordPress blogs and how they are very susceptible to duplicate content issues. But it is not just WordPress, it is most blog formats, even this one. This single article...

Posted on October 20, 2006 7:06 AM