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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 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 created a simple website for one of my clients. I added meta tags in order to end up high in Google searches. However, if I enter the name of the site or some meta keywords, Google doesn't find my website.
The critical keywords that I want to be found: "Orquidea", "schoonheidssalon Westerlo", "Westerlo", "schoonheidssalon"
I uploaded the meta tags a week ago. I think that would be long enough to be scannend and recognized by Google right?
Anyone a solution?
Here's the URL: http://www.orquidea.be
Although the question is off-topic, I'll still answer it!
FACT: Meta keywords have no effect on SEO. Instead, you should focus on generating quality content and getting backlinks to appropriate webpages.
Make sure to use those meta keywords only, that match the content of your client's website. And yes, don't worry about anything else.
Sure, Nowadays meta tags have no effect on search engine rankings. That is Meta Tags are not considered in ranking your website. But before it was into consideration when people used to keyword stuff their meta tags.
This caused difficulty in validating websites for Google, so they used to follow only meta descriptions, content, titles. So always be careful when writing meta descriptions, titles and content. Don't stuff your content with your target keywords. Write simple content that is readable and understandable for your website and sure your website will be indexed in right place for the right keyword...
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i want to optimize rank of my site in search engines especially Google . i have submitted a sitemap to Google ; after about a week i see that 170 page had been submitted but just one page has been indexed. is there something wrong with it?
It isn't certain that there is something wrong.
Google first reads your sitemap. It is reporting that it found 170 urls in your sitemap, and has queued them up to be considered.
A week later it has decided to add one page to its index. One of two things has happened: google has not gotten around to crawling ( that is reading ) and considering all the pages in your sitemap. Or Google has looked at your pages and decided not to add them to its index.
Look in webmaster tools under "google index", "index status", "advanced". Then select "ever crawled". It should show you how many URLs it crawled from your site. If they haven't been crawled yet, you may just have to wait.
If they have been crawled, and are not added to the index, consider improving your content - or try the "fetch as googlebot" feature to make sure that what you are sending to google is what you think. Sometimes things can be configured so they look good to users, but are not visible to googlebot - e.g. all your content is ajaxed or in flash or something.
Also make sure that you aren't disallowing google to crawl your site in robots.txt, and that you are allowing the pages to be indexed. ( check to make sure you do not have a "noindex" tag in your html ).
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I've researched many methods on how to prevent Google/other search engines from crawling a specific directory. The two most popular ones I've seen are:
Adding it into the robots.txt file: Disallow: /directory/
Adding a meta tag: <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
Which method would work the best? I want this directory to remain "invisible" from search engines so it does not affect any of my site's ranking.
In other words, I want this directory to be neutral/invisible and "just there." I don't want it to affect any ranking. Which method would be the best to achieve this?
Robots.txt is the way to go for this.
According to Google, you only use the meta tag if you don't have rights to create/edit the robots.txt file.
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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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This question is not purely SEO related no it requires SEO specific reasoning or answers it can be explained also technically how search engine robots work. if it still seems offtopic for moderators I request them to explain why
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..