Comments on: Google Analytics Helped Me Find Duplicate Content

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 08 May 2009 06:05:29 +0000

Isaac: Just an opinion but duplication is duplication. Google has ways of spotting and classifying it quickly. If it’s duped content it goes supplemental and the webmaster’s net gain of such content is a big fat 0. For templates I am sure there is mathematical devluation. I personally try to stay clear of templates.

James: A great dupe content finder. I actually use my own software to check for duped content and similarity.

By: James S

James S — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:32:48 +0000

In regards to the duplicate content part of this blog post, I personally use the http://www.copygator.com website to find and stop duplicate content:

1. it’s automated and brings me results instead of me searching for duplicated content. All i had to do was submit my feed and it started monitoring my feed showing me who’s republished my articles on the web.

2. i get notified by email so it contacts me when it finds copies of my articles online.

3. i use their image badge feature to alert me directly on my website when my content is being lifted.

4. it’s a free service as opposed the “per page” cost of copyscape/copysentry.

By: Isaac

Isaac — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:50:00 +0000

Robert, just curious…
would this potentially affect templates as well?
What I mean is that if affiliates buy website templates or other types of duplicate systems, will this hurt them or anyone else, or are there rules that limit cookie-cutter systems?

We have all seen sales copy titles that start out with “Who else wants to …..”

Can you speak to this or are these exempt?

Isaac

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:32:11 +0000

It is pretty cool with analytics how you can see the affect of making changes in duplicate content. When I detect it on any of the sites I report on it is part of my report.

Then it’s in the client’s court. Time and time again unique content with good interlinking dances circles around duped content.

By: Alonso

Alonso — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:48:39 +0000

As you rightly say, duplicate content can be harmful to both organic and PPC ranking efforts. In the case of PPC, landing pages can easily attract duplicate content penalties. Adding the NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW tag and keeping the landing pages off the limits of search engine spiders is a solution. For organic pages writing unique content for pages is the way to go. In either case duplicate content issues should be deftly dealt with.

By: Juan

Juan — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:37:21 +0000

This instance reminds us once again the importance of unique content in our pages. Don’t forget how Google treats mirrored contents, Google frowns heavily on duplicate content that does not add any value to our site.

By: Dimitry

Dimitry — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:49:36 +0000

Yes, search engines in general and Google in particular detest duplicate content. Content that is duplicate not only slows down the retrieval process but also degrades entire the search experience. It also tarnishes the reputation of search engines. Because the last thing a user wants to see when he searches is several search engine results showing the same text.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:55:25 +0000

Google will always find out duplicate content; there is no doubt on that. Google, besides, can pretty well judge if the content is aimed to deceive the search engines and to manipulate the search results. Google guidelines are rather very clear on this point. Its best to avoid duplicate content anyway.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:06:54 +0000

I never realized the fact. Thanks for disclosing it. No doubt, site should contain unique content. Google penalizes sites that are seen to have duplicate content because they dont want to have multiple results with the same content showing for searchers queries as this could take away from the user experience. This could potentially mean that Google would choose one site to display in the search results and ignore the other site.

Arthur