Google Panda~ By Rachana Gandhi & Bhakti Kantariya by Rachana Gandhi

Viraj Shah

2018-09-24 11:10:51 UTC

Duplicate content on different domains is unavoidable, like republishing press releases or guest blog posts. When it’s done properly, this won’t hurt your website. Other instances are more damaging. The following cases of duplicate content on different domains can hurt your website.

Reusing product descriptions from a manufacturer.
Buying a fill-in website content template.
Stealing competitor’s content.
Site scrapers copying and re-posting content.
Recycling content between domains you own.
Reusing a site disclaimer or legal notice across different domains.

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Chaitya Shah

2018-09-24 11:11:52 UTC

Google doesn't penalize website that have duplicate content. Though we can take measures to defend against this by referencing the website from which we have found the specifications.

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Arvind Ganesh

arvindganesh_a — 2018-09-24 11:18:28 UTC

Canonicals are the saviors of ecommerce website owners battling duplicate content.

When your site has a number of filtering or sorting options you are often left with the same URL being indexed. Canonical tags help you communicate to search engines, which of your duplicated content pages is the primary target you want indexed in search results. This way Google understands the reason for your duplicated content, rather than penalising your site.
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Ankit Ramani

2018-09-27 10:01:09 UTC

Duplicated content is often not manipulative and is commonplace on many websites and often free from malicious intent. Copied content can often be penalised algorithmically or manually. Duplicate content is not penalised, but this is often not an optimal set-up for pages, either. Be very careful ‘spinning’ ‘copied’ text to make it unique!

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Parth Thakker

parth_kt — 2018-09-28 14:01:25 UTC

In order to avoid the penalization for duplicate content, you can of course use meta noindex and rel="nofollow". Here is the syntax:

This tells robots not to index the content of a page, and/or not scan it for links to follow.
There is one important considerations when using the robots tag:

The NOFOLLOW directive only applies to links on this page. It's entirely likely that a robot might find the same links on some other page without a NOFOLLOW (perhaps on some other site), and so still arrives at your undesired page. Don't confuse this NOFOLLOW with the rel="nofollow" link attribute.

However, in some cases, content is deliberately duplicated across domains in an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or win more traffic. Deceptive practices like this can result in a poor user experience, when a visitor sees substantially the same content repeated within a set of search results.

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Shreya Parikh

shreya_parikh — 2018-09-29 03:26:48 UTC

According to Google: Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely match other content or are appreciably similar. Mostly, this is not deceptive in origin. People mistake duplicate content for a penalty because of how Google handles it.
What are Google’s thoughts on duplicate content?

Duplicate content doesn’t cause your site to be penalized.
Googlers know that users want diversity in the search results and not the same article over and over, so they choose to consolidate and show only one version.
Duplicate content is not grounds for action unless its intent is to manipulate search results.
Google tries to determine the original source of the content and display that one.
Do not block access to duplicate content. If they can’t crawl all the versions, they can’t consolidate the signals.

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Aakash Zaveri

aakash_zaveri — 2018-09-30 17:19:48 UTC

Duplicate content is not penalised, but this is often not an optimal set-up for pages, either. Be very careful ‘spinning’ ‘copied’ text to make it unique! Google doesn't penalize website that have duplicate content. Though we can take measures to defend against this by referencing the website from which we have found the specifications.

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Unnati Mistry

2018-09-30 20:43:16 UTC

Content plagirism test, checks for the copy pasted content it is quite difficult to recognize the content which is copied but just manuplated in a way that it can not be recognized, so it can be solution to the problem if it is really required to have similar content, or else you can always buy copyrights from the original creator, in that way your site can't be penalized for copyright infringement action.

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Aditya Pingale

2018-10-01 04:56:07 UTC

It is possible to avoid penalization of duplicate data by correct usage of robots.txt file. Particular access to a page can be avoided by using no-follow to that page. Plagiarism tools like smallseotools or any other can be used to check the content which we want to use for or website.

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Mehul Monani

mehul_monani — 2018-10-01 06:16:25 UTC

Duplicate content is content that appears on the Internet in more than one place. That “one place” is defined as a location with a unique website address (URL) - so, if the same content appears at more than one web address, you’ve got duplicate content.

While not technically a penalty , duplicate content can still sometimes impact search engine rankings. When there are multiple pieces of, as Google calls it, "appreciably similar" content in more than one location on the Internet, it can be difficult for search engines to decide which version is more relevant to a given search query.

For site owners

When duplicate content is present, site owners can suffer rankings and traffic losses. These losses often stem from two main problems:

To provide the best search experience, search engines will rarely show multiple versions of the same content, and thus are forced to choose which version is most likely to be the best result. This dilutes the visibility of each of the duplicates.
Link equity can be further diluted because other sites have to choose between the duplicates as well. instead of all inbound links pointing to one piece of content, they link to multiple pieces, spreading the link equity among the duplicates. Because inbound links are a ranking factor, this can then impact the search visibility of a piece of content.

How to fix duplicate content issues

Fixing duplicate content issues all comes down to the same central idea: specifying which of the duplicates is the "correct" one.

Whenever content on a site can be found at multiple URLs, it should be canonicalised for search engines. Let's go over the three main ways to do this: Using a 301 redirect to the correct URL, the rel=canonical attribute, or using the parameter handling tool in Google Search Console.

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Malvika Parulekar

malvika_p — 2018-10-01 07:03:38 UTC

Duplicate content isen't exactly penalized but it will reduce the sites page rank. Canonical meta tag is useful for avoiding duplicate data on sites. It is prefered to perform a plagiarism check before allowing the file in robot.txt.
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Drishti Shah

2018-10-01 07:58:27 UTC

Canonical is really just a fancy (almost biblical) word that means “official version.” If you ever republish an article that first appeared elsewhere, you can use the canonical tag to tell search engines where the original version appeared. It looks like this:

That’s it! Just add the tag and republish fearlessly.
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2018-10-01 07:58:51 UTC

Saurabh Ughade

2018-10-01 08:06:03 UTC

Use 301s: If you've restructured your site, use 301 redirects ("RedirectPermanent") in your .htaccess file to smartly redirect users, Googlebot, and other spiders. Be consistent: Try to keep your internal linking consistent. Use top-level domains. Syndicate carefully Minimize boilerplate repetition. Understand your content management system. Minimize similar content.

Harshita Bayeti

2018-10-01 08:12:08 UTC

Having duplicate content can affect your site in a variety of ways; but unless you've been duplicating deliberately, it's unlikely that one of those ways will be a penalty.
Duplicate content is not grounds for action unless its intent is to manipulate search results.The
difference being the intent and nature of the duplicated text.
To avoid penalization, Block appropriately i.e guide the crawler towards more important pages than let it decide for itself.

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Nida Shah

2018-10-01 08:21:17 UTC

A site doesn't get penalized due to duplicate content.Any action is not taken against duplicate content unless and until it is intended to manipulate the search results. Google already has algorithms to prevent duplicate content from affecting webmasters. The worst thing that can happen is the less desirable version of the page will be shown
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viral_vora — 2018-10-01 08:24:26 UTC

Duplicate content is not really penalized but it does affect the seo rating of the website. The best solution would be update the content frequently so that the freshness and the quality of the content is maintained and reduces redundancy with other websites.

Shreyash Sharma

shreyash_sharma — 2018-10-01 08:32:21 UTC

Not only tech websites but also a lot of website which provide printable as well as view only format of the same page can be considered as duplicate data.
Use of Iframes can distinguish to the crawler that the data is not duplicated. it will not increase the seo score but will prevent decrease in the score

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ASHWINIKUMAR

2018-10-01 08:59:25 UTC

Many great posts have been published by Googlers. I’m going to give you a summary of the best parts, but I recommend reading over the posts as well.

Duplicate content doesn’t cause your site to be penalized.
Googlers know that users want diversity in the search results and not the same article over and over, so they choose to consolidate and show only one version.
Google actually designed algorithms to prevent duplicate content from affecting webmasters. These algorithms group the various versions into a cluster, the “best” URL in the cluster is displayed, and they actually consolidate various signals (such as links) from pages within that cluster to the one being shown. They even went as far as saying, “If you don’t want to worry about sorting through duplication on your site, you can let us worry about it instead.”

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