I am always on the look for duplicate content issues. Generally speaking,
Google will identify the best pages on your site if you have a decent on-site
architecture. It’s usually pretty decent at this but it totally depends on where
you are linkbuilding to within the site and how your site navigation is put
together.
Don’t invite duplicate content issues. I don’t consider it a penalty you receive
in general for duplicate content – you’re just not getting the most benefit.
You’re website content isn’t being what it could be – a contender.
But this should be common sense. Google wants and rewards original
content. Google doesn’t like duplicate content, and it’s a footprint of most
spam sites. You don’t want to look anything like a spam site.
The more you can make it look a human built every page on a page by page
basis with content that doesn’t appear exactly in other areas of the site – the
more Google will like it. Google does not like automation when it comes to
building a website, that’s for clear. (Unique titles, meta descriptions, keyword
tags, content.)
I don’t mind Category duplicate content – as with WordPress – it can even
help sometimes to spread PR and theme a site. But I generally wouldn’t have
tags and categories, for instance.
I’m not that bothered with ‘theming’ at this point to recommend silo’ing your
content or no-indexing your categories. If I am not theming enough with proper
content and mini-silo’ing to related pages from this page and to this page I
should go home. Most sites in my opinion don’t need to silo their content – the
scope of the content is just not that broad.
Keep in mind Google won’t thank you for spidering a calendar folder with
10,000 blank pages on it – why would they. They may even algorithmically tick
you off.
PS – Duplicate content found on other sites? Now that’s a totally different
problem.
Google will identify the best pages on your site if you have a decent on-site
architecture. It’s usually pretty decent at this but it totally depends on where
you are linkbuilding to within the site and how your site navigation is put
together.
Don’t invite duplicate content issues. I don’t consider it a penalty you receive
in general for duplicate content – you’re just not getting the most benefit.
You’re website content isn’t being what it could be – a contender.
But this should be common sense. Google wants and rewards original
content. Google doesn’t like duplicate content, and it’s a footprint of most
spam sites. You don’t want to look anything like a spam site.
The more you can make it look a human built every page on a page by page
basis with content that doesn’t appear exactly in other areas of the site – the
more Google will like it. Google does not like automation when it comes to
building a website, that’s for clear. (Unique titles, meta descriptions, keyword
tags, content.)
I don’t mind Category duplicate content – as with WordPress – it can even
help sometimes to spread PR and theme a site. But I generally wouldn’t have
tags and categories, for instance.
I’m not that bothered with ‘theming’ at this point to recommend silo’ing your
content or no-indexing your categories. If I am not theming enough with proper
content and mini-silo’ing to related pages from this page and to this page I
should go home. Most sites in my opinion don’t need to silo their content – the
scope of the content is just not that broad.
Keep in mind Google won’t thank you for spidering a calendar folder with
10,000 blank pages on it – why would they. They may even algorithmically tick
you off.
PS – Duplicate content found on other sites? Now that’s a totally different
problem.
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