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Google's Duplicate Content penalty.

Google's Duplicate Content penalty.

no2pencil	10 May, 2008 - 07:36 PM Post #1
i R L33t Skiddie, k? Joined: 10 May, 2007 Posts: 13,232 Thanked: 289 times Dream Kudos: 2875 Expert In: Goofing Off My Contributions	Once again, our PR has dropped. We fell from PR3 to PR2. As well, our best links have fallen off the face of Google. When I shared this recent happening with a friend, he shared with me that Google has penalties for 2 urls that share duplicate content. Has anyone else experienced this? If this is true, it's because we have multiple URLs pointing to the same index.html page. Again, if this is true, is mod_rewrite the best way to handle fixing this? I was thinking of simply blocking the spiders with robots.txt, however he suggested mod_rewrite would be the better way to go. Thoughts?
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Nykc	RE: Google's Duplicate Content Penalty. 10 May, 2008 - 07:55 PM Post #2
This script is cheap! Joined: 14 Sep, 2007 Posts: 6,475 Thanked: 43 times Dream Kudos: 325 My Contributions	That is true, but it is possible there is more involved than that. Link partnerships with Link Farm companies can hurt your rankings also.
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skyhawk133	RE: Google's Duplicate Content Penalty. 11 May, 2008 - 09:52 AM Post #3
Head DIC Head Joined: 17 Mar, 2001 Posts: 16,844 Thanked: 152 times Dream Kudos: 1650 Expert In: Web Development My Contributions	Some things to check, and maybe some of your links just lost value and it cascaded down to you. But, check that all your page titles are different, that none of your pages share the same description, make sure that if you do have a script that generates multiple pages with the same content (i.e. like a forum) that you robots.txt out the duplicate pages. Here at DIC I have 495,000 pages in the index right this second, and over 1.5 million blocked by robots.txt.
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MarkoDaGeek	RE: Google's Duplicate Content Penalty. 13 May, 2008 - 08:57 AM Post #4
Dirty Technophile Joined: 13 Oct, 2001 Posts: 11,124 Thanked: 2 times Dream Kudos: 970 Expert In: Computer Networking, Web Development, Blogging My Contributions	My Bbogs's PR went up with the recent Google rounds, sittin' at a PR 4 now, not bad for being slammed to a 0 less then a year ago.
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Nykc	RE: Google's Duplicate Content Penalty. 13 May, 2008 - 10:56 AM Post #5
This script is cheap! Joined: 14 Sep, 2007 Posts: 6,475 Thanked: 43 times Dream Kudos: 325 My Contributions	Why were you slammed to a 0? Usually blogs fair pretty well given the dynamic content.
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no2pencil	RE: Google's Duplicate Content Penalty. 14 May, 2008 - 12:47 AM Post #6
i R L33t Skiddie, k? Joined: 10 May, 2007 Posts: 13,232 Thanked: 289 times Dream Kudos: 2875 Expert In: Goofing Off My Contributions	Update Once I did some patching with the robots.txt & copying the index.html & pointing the virtual server to the new html (that is now asking spiders to ignore) it seams to have done the trick. Our site is coming up on Google, although not as high as before, but still up there. So that's a relief!
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MarkoDaGeek	RE: Google's Duplicate Content Penalty. 18 May, 2008 - 09:39 AM Post #7
Dirty Technophile Joined: 13 Oct, 2001 Posts: 11,124 Thanked: 2 times Dream Kudos: 970 Expert In: Computer Networking, Web Development, Blogging My Contributions	QUOTE(Nykc @ 13 May, 2008 - 01:56 PM) Why were you slammed to a 0? Usually blogs fair pretty well given the dynamic content. I had paid links on my site, essentially every blog affiliated with PayPerPost or ReviewMe was slammed. I just made the corrections and filed a reinclusion request.
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