‘Duplicate content’ Category Archive

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Excerpt: News of how Google and Yahoo index web sites. Suppose you want to sell your product to several different countries that speak the same language.  To get the best from local search and domain authority one would need to have separate websites with completely different content. However, this seems ridiculous. Re-write the entire content because the search engine might think that you are spamming by only changing country specific variations in language and currency. Fortunately, search engineers Greg Grothaus and Priyank Garg at Google and Yahoo respectively said that this is no longer the case.  Previously, I and many other SEO’s…

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Excerpt: For those that do not know Magento is a feature packed open source ecommerce  platform. It is an excellent solution for people wanting to sell their products online. However, in the support forums there has been some concern over its ability to be made SEO friendly. We covered one method which was basically to use robots.txt to avoid crawlling those portions of the site which could possibly introduce duplicate content. This partially solves this problem but it prevents the flow of pageRank from those pages so if someone has linked to one of these duplicate copy pages you won’t get…

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Excerpt: International SEO is becoming of increasing importance to many people. Once you have conquered a marketplace in one country you might be eager to look for new markets in other parts of the world to increase your sales. What should you be aware of when targeting search engine rankings in other countries which speak the same language? Search engines are drawing results which are biased toward a geographical locations so they will naturally favour sites representing locations in searcher’s area. However, the biggest problem with ranking international sites using the same language is  duplicate content. Google cannot determine the authorship of different…

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Excerpt: In part I of this two part series on SEO tips for Blogs we looked at WordPress plugins, creating themes, internal linking, RSS Feeds and Blog Aggregators. In the second part of  search engine optimisation for blogs, we examine social media, external linking and how to avoid duplicate content. Social Media Twitter Twitter is a social networking site that allows you keep in touch with groups of people on the web through the passing of short messages (tweets) to say what you are doing. It sound like a ridiculous idea but it has the capability to build up a targeted audience for your…

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Excerpt: Absolute Links and Relative Links Absolute links are the URL that specify the full name of the domain and the destination. For example to go to a page on the types of link you could copy http://www.seothegame.com/linking-strategies-ideas-for-linking-535 into your browser and a page on linking strategies will appear. This is known as absolute link as it is unambiguous. It can only go to one location. Contrast this to a relative link /linking-strategies-ideas-for-linking-535. It omits the domain information. If it is on the same domain, it links to the same page. But place it on a separate domain then it can refer to…