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I have 2 url width the totally same content because I'd like if a subpage could reach in easily (short name) and valuable urls too:
domain.com/name_of_company
domain.com/name_of_company/address_of_company
And I have a third url:
domain.com/name_of_company/products_of_company
This page would be the same as domain.com/name_of_company but with more content at the top of the page.
What you think if it's good way or I should forget 'cause I'll be punished by google?
Thank you in advance!
It's perfectly fine to have identical pages, but then you should add a canonical link to the pages, which tells which URL you consider to be the original. That way search engines can immediately see that the pages were intended to be identical.
This will not only avoid being punished for duplicate content, it will also allow for the search engines to count incoming links to both URLs as links to the original page.
For the third page, you could consider if you need to repeat all the content from the other page. Having some content repeated from page to page is common (e.g. page footer), but too much repeated content is not valuable. Even if you are not directly punished for the repetition, there is a risk that some of the repeated content is simply ignored.
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I'm working on an application which contents are taken from books and I can find similar content on competitor site. As I'm not copying their content but the content from books I have this fear that it could be marked as duplicated content. How can I resolve this issue or avoid duplication?
You're correct. Without proper care, your site could get dinged for having duplicate content. There are several options that you can take:
1)If you want the page to be indexed, then putting the book content into an iFrame (which search engine spiders can't crawl) is a good solution. Include some original content as an introduction to the page and then place the "duplicate content" into an iframe. This will allow the page to get indexed in the search engine results without putting you at risk. I recommend having at least 500 words of unique content per page:
2)The other option - if you don't want to write introductory text - is to tell Google not to index those pages. Add a noindex,follow tag to pages that have duplicate content.
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, FOLLOW">
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I am just starting to work on my first responsive site and am realizing some SEO things may fit on the front page of our site may not fit 'naturally' on the front page of the mobile version.
Is there anyway to ensure search engines see the full-size site?
Once complicating matter is that I am designing the site 'mobile first'. So the site does not default to full-size, it defaults to mobile sizes.
Assuming you deliver the same content to the end user regardless of device, and just show/hide or reformat based upon a media query, it really doesn’t matter. Google will still get the full content of the page so will index all of your content. What is visible in the viewport isn’t really significant to Google.
Google will, however, understand the use of media queries and give you some additional SEO benefits as a result. Google favours responsive design over separate sites/mobile specific pages. Responsive design also helps improve the indexing efficiency of the Googlebot.
One thing they do advise is not to block access to any of your ‘external’ resources (css, js, images etc)
Plenty of good information here
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My web application retrieves a page for every request generated by a form submission. That form submits to the same URL of the page.
Each time the page loads with a different title tag. Does it indicate different pages with the same URL?
How does it affect SEO? how can I manage this situation?
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Try and use a rewiter rule to format your URL to a unqiune page if your always loading to the same page google ( or other search engines) will only index that single page.
http://www.seomoz.org/img/upload/anatomy-of-a-url.jpg
In addition to load the page each time with different title tag you need to append the URL with some uinque text like your GET variable data..
For getting crawled by spiders don't forget to submit your sitemap to search engines with relevant urls..
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lets say i have a website that i am developing...
the site may have wallpapers, question & answers, info (e.g imdb,wikipedia etcetera)
what do i need to do so that when some search engine analyzes a particular page of my website for particular, lets say 'XYZ', it finds 'XYZ', content it finds 'XYZ' content if it present in that page...
please i am new to this so pardon my non-techy jargon...
The most important tips in SEO revolve around what not to do:
Keep Java and Flash as minimal as is possible, web crawlers can't parse them. Javascript can accomplish the vast majority of Flash-like animations, but it's generally best to avoid them altogether.
Avoid using images to replace text or headings. Remember that any text in images won't be parsed. If necessary, there are SEO-friendly ways of replacing text with images, but any time you have text not visible to the user, you risk the crawler thinking your trying to cheat the system.
Don't try to be too clever. The best way to optimize your search results is to have quality content which engages your audience. Be wary of anyone who claims they can improve your results artificially; Google is usually smarter than they are.
Search engines (like Google) usually use the content in <h1> tags to find out the content of your page and determine how relevant your page is to that content by the number of sites that link to your page.
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There are a lot of websites that look professional in Google results. Try searching for 'stackoverflow' and you'll see at the top a result with a title, a description and a table of 8 links to stackoverflow categories. That's what I'm interested in producing for future websites.
So what must be done? Does it depend on the number of visitors? How long does it take until the results start looking like that?
I think you are referring to "sitelinks". Google generally does not make it public exactly how those are created (to prevent abuse, for example). I suspect you need the subpages to be very strongly linked, perhaps about the same amount or more than the top-level page. No way to know for sure. The best way to get your website looking good in Google is to make it as user-friendly and human-friendly as possible. I think Google typically looks for clues as to whether the website will be relevant to humans and very likely penalizes content that detracts from the interface just to become search-engine optimized.
Make sure that each page (not just your home page) has a title.
Include description meta information, which search engines may (or may not) use for snippets to display.
If an unordered list (<ul><li><a href="http://..">Home...) is used for navigation on the page, Google will pick that up and display it underneath the page listing when it is the #1 or #2 position listing.
Google may also use the description meta, or the first few lines of text that appear on the page, underneath the entry. It usually does this for searches in the other positions.