Posts Tagged ‘duplicate content penalty’

Google’s View on Duplicate Content

Friday, December 11th, 2009

As I have been discussing this subject recently I thought it would be a good idea to publish this video which has been produced by Google who have also been discussing the same subject and advising on what to do about inadvertent production of duplicate content.

The video also covers the implementation of the new rel=canonical tag which can be used to identify content that has been duplicated deliberately on a single domain.

Most importantly though, it does confirm that the duplicate content penalty is a MYTH

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Duplicate Content Penalty – Real or Myth?

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

duplicate_contentThe answer to the above question is relatively straight forward and is a little like cholesterol. There is good and bad duplicate content.

So if you are going to be penalised or not depends on the type of duplicate content you are involved with and is why you need to understand which is which.

Bad Duplicate Content

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