Webmasters Stack Exchange
Webmasters Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [duplicate-content]

The same content on different webpages, including on pages on different websites. Search engines may penalise websites which have duplicate content on them.

711 questions
7
votes
1 answer

Other sites copying content and making it nonsensical

I have found content from my site being hosted on other sites. Some of these sites convert the content into gibberish, which I suspect is accomplished using artificial intelligence. I presume there is kind of financial motivation, but what is going…
fiftytwocards
  • 71
  • 1
4
votes
1 answer

Duplicate content after author leaves my site to self-host his blog

I understand this question is asked frequently but my case is slightly different. I work for a website allowing users to have their own blogs and it might happen that one of the authors might decide to leave my website to self-host his blog. I want…
WPRookie82
  • 443
  • 2
  • 8
3
votes
0 answers

Why Wikipedia does not have duplicate content issues with search engines?

I discovered that the following 2 URLs are serving exactly same content. Why is this not impacting Wikipedia's SEO? I've heard having same content across 2 URLs has negative impact on…
Amit Kriplani
  • 131
  • 2
3
votes
1 answer

How to find the content that are directly copied from other websites?

We're managing a client's website for SEO. We have recently found that some of the content on my client's website are directly copied from other websites. As a solution provider we have recommended to replace the content with original content. Is…
bumblebee
  • 31
  • 1
3
votes
3 answers

How to indicate a page is duplicate content when you control its body but not its head?

http://www.zcommunications.org/ready-or-not-can-bangladesh-cope-with-climate-change-by-hazel-healy is a copy of a page on our site created by the author, and links back to that page. Google's guidelines suggested to me that this would be enough for…
tog22
  • 409
  • 5
  • 17
2
votes
4 answers

How to use same content from another site without getting a penalty for duplicate content?

I need to use content from a testimonials page of another site, but I don't want to be caught for duplicate content. Is there something I can do to tell google that the div where the content is is using content from another external page?
Matty
  • 53
  • 5
2
votes
1 answer

How do I handle duplicated content on related domains?

I am in charge of two unique domains - one on which my client sells activity packages, and the other where he sells resort information. One place shows the user what he can do and the other shows where he can stay. He wants both sites to have common…
Amit Erandole
  • 185
  • 1
  • 6
2
votes
1 answer

Duplicate Content and News - How do SE's treat them?

I am planning to start a news website wherein I will be syndicating news from News Distribution Services and Press Releases. What most Webmasters in this field do is to directly copy (or atleast 95% of) the content provided by the news distribution…
Sam
  • 550
  • 4
  • 11
1
vote
1 answer

Does google track content duplicacy if same article is written in company blog or somewhere else?

I see some articles are submitted in multiple sites(medium.com,company blog). Does Google track duplicate content for the same company?
Jivan
  • 111
  • 2
1
vote
2 answers

What is the right way to copy some information from a website and refer the website?

I am going to open a movie review website where users will publish their reviews, but first I need to insert some info about the movie. I need to copy some information from sites such as IMDb, and then I want to refer the website possibly with a…
BlackReaper
  • 13
  • 2
1
vote
2 answers

Duplicating content from another site and adding value (summaries, statistics) - ranking and courtesy

I am working on a site that takes a governmental data base, provides a number of statistical and other summaries and also post the original data. However this data (mostly long pieces of text) is also published on the official governmental site…
Krastanov
  • 111
  • 4
1
vote
2 answers

How to permanently remove an URL from Google when the URL of the depublished page is catched by a failover page?

Assume that you have a product page with a friendly URL like https://example.com/opel-corsa-70000km-P1023 and a category page that lists all similar products of the same brand: https://example.com/opel. The .htaccess file manages the friendly…
OuzoPower
  • 357
  • 2
  • 9
0
votes
1 answer

Does common text cause duplicate content?

Working on a new website, that has lots of pages with people's info and bio. Because of this, it contains a lot of common text on each person's page. example.com/person1 contains: Height: his height Weight:his weight Country: USA/etc Birthday:…
ClawDuda
  • 1,197
  • 2
  • 12
  • 23
0
votes
1 answer

How can I resolve duplicate content issue for my 2 pages

Here is scenarios : URL 1 : http://www.example.com/topics URL 2 : http://www.example.com Some of top topic we are displaying in home page[URL 2] as well and that is necessary for us. Google consider it as duplicate content. How can I resolve this…
Helping Hands
  • 756
  • 3
  • 13