Duplicate Web
Content - 7 Top Reasons to
Write Unique Content
Copyright Herman Drost
Content has always been king
on the Internet because search
engine spiders readily spider the text on your web pages.
However If you begin duplicating web content from other
sources, you may jeopardize your site's rankings due to
triggering the duplicate content filters employed by the
search engines. As more sites come online everyday, there
is a greater possibility of duplicate content being seen as
spam.
What is Duplicate Web Content?
Definition Duplicate content is where the content of a web
page or web site is similar or the same.
1. Duplicating content from other web pages on your site
or from other sites.
2. Creating a number of sites that all contain duplicate
content.
Search engines want to deliver the most relevant results
for the search results. They therefore use a filter to
remove duplicate web content. If the web content is similar
or the same it is considered duplicate content and will
trigger
the duplicate content filter in the search engines. This is
considered spamming by the search engines and will affect
your site's rankings.
Consider this: Do you really want to see 21 copies of the
same article when you do a search on Google that is meant
to satisfy your immediate needs? The most authoritative
sites tend to show up at the top of the search engine
results. They should, but it doesn't happen often enough
because each search engine treats duplicate web content
differently. |
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