Tip of the Day: Duplicate Content: Adjusting My Blog Settings

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 at 10:37 am

I am not sure why Google would have given me a PR4 for this blog only to take it away shortly after. Nothing on my site had changed in tha short period of time but Google still knocked me back to a PR2.

I watched a video this morning that was talking about duplicate content which led me to think perhaps my blog was being slapped for that exact reason. I am really good at watching a video and then forgetting where I found it, but I searched through my browser history and found that link again.

You can watch the duplicate content video at DailyBlogTips.

After watching the video I went and grabbed the Wordpress plugin Homepage Excerpts and installed it. I only had to upload it to my plugin folder and then activate it from my admin area and I was done.

Here is a quick summary:

Having two or more pages that have very similar content is referred to as Duplicate content and can cause multiple headaches.
Duplicate content doesn’t even have to be on the same site. Spreading an article around to a hundred different directories could also be considered duplicate content.
I have found that it’s good advice to avoid duplicate content by making your content at least 35-30% unique and avoid being penalized.
WordPress themes authors don’t always deal with the duplicate content issue so you have a problem right out of the box.
Apart from the homepage, it is a good idea to check your categories and archive pages to see whether full posts are being displayed there or not
Remember that your goal is to make sure that your posts or articles can accessed in full from only one location inside your site.

I have now installed the homepage excerpts plugin and my main page, categories and archives are now showing excerpts so I will wait for the next round from Google and see if they give me back my PR4.

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2 Comments

Dennis Edell says:

June 25, 2008 at 6:51 am

I use the all-in-one seo plugin…a simple tick box (3 actually) for no index on categories, archives, and tag archives.
Scott Brooks - How to Write an Ebook says:

August 18, 2009 at 6:32 am

I know first hand the consequences of distributing duplicate content. I had two squeeze pages that were almost identical. They disappeared from Google until I finally realized my error. It took almost three months for them to reappear. I’m amazed at how so many marketers still believe Google doesn’t penalizes sites that contain duplicate content.