How To Diagnose Duplicate Content?

How To Diagnose Duplicate Content?

By:


The latest Google Panda update is a wake-up call about SEO issues that are being ignored by us for too long. There is no need to be melodramatic about this whole Panda thing, as it is also fact that Panda has not changed everything about SEO. One of the most-talked about issues of SEO is the duplicate content that has been orbiting the web world for years, but now with every update from Google, it is supposed to be more complicated.

Through this blog, you will get to know about a brief detail of what duplicate content is, how it happens, how to diagnose it, and how to fix it.

I. What Is Duplicate Content?
Duplicate content is when any two (or more) pages share the same content.

II. Why Do Duplicates Matter?
The Supplemental Index
The Crawl Budget
The Indexation Cap
The Penalty Debate
The Panda Update

III. Three Kinds of Duplicates
(1) True Duplicates
(2) Near Duplicates
(3) Cross-domain Duplicates

IV. Tools for Fixing Duplicates
1404 (Not Found)
2301 Redirect
3Robots.txt
4Meta Robots
5Rel=Canonical
6Google URL Removal
7(7) Google Parameter Blocking
8(8) Bing URL Removal
9(9) Bing Parameter Blocking
10(10) Rel=Prev & Rel=Next
11(11) Syndication-Source
12(12) Internal Linking
13(13) Dont Do Anything

V. Examples of Duplicate Content
(1) www vs. Non-www
(2) Staging Servers
(3) Trailing Slashes ("/")
(4) Secure (https) Pages
(5) Home-page Duplicates
(6) Session IDs
(7) Affiliate Tracking
(8) Duplicate Paths
(9) Functional Parameters
(10) International Duplicates
(11) Search Sorts
(12) Search Filters
(13) Search Pagination
(14) Product Variations
(15) Geo-keyword Variations
(16) Other Thin Content
(17) Syndicated Content
(18) Scraped Content
(19) Cross-ccTLD Duplicates

VI. Which URL Is Canonical?
The canonical page is always not the easiest version of the URL rather it is the easiest version of the URL that creates UNIQUE content.

VII. Tools for Diagnosing Duplicates
(1) Google Webmaster Tools
(2) Googles Site: Command
(3) SEOmoz Campaign Manager
(4) Your Own Brain

As a final point, dont forget to use your own brain. Searching duplicate content often demands some detective work, and over-relying on tools can leave little gaps in what you discover.

By doing little smart work by posting the fresh content, concise as well as unique, a large number of companies again in position to regain the traffic & enjoy higher rankings on different search engines. Besides, these companies have acted smartly and take some logical action to ensure that their website continue to receive more number of audience without being affected by the latest updates on Panda.

SynapseIndia offers Google Panda Recovery Services to address your duplicate content concern.


About the Author:
This article has been written by a technical writer working at SynapseIndia - a SEO Company of India offering Google Panda Recovery Services & Brand Reputation Management Services to the worldwide clients.



Article Originally Published On: http://www.articlesnatch.com


|

Loading...
Related....
Videos...

Recent Site-Promotion Articles

Comments

Still can't find what you are looking for? Search for it!

Loading

Copyright 2005-2011 ArticleSnatch, LLC - All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy | Terms of Service.