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Casual Articles - Duplicate Content: 4 Views on Why you Should Care
Awhile back you had a great idea. An idea that you thought could make you a decent income, with very little effort. Then, you had another great idea—to sell your first great idea on the Internet! What better way is there to market and sell your idea to the world, you thought. So, you bought a domain name, found a web host, and hired a high-priced web designer. Before you knew it, your new business was up and running on the web. With the help of a search engine optimization firm, your site shot to the top results of Google and Yahoo. Plus, you added an affiliate program, along with some other marketing ventures. Soon, tons of targeted traffic started flowing to your site…A couple of weeks went by and the euphoria of owning your own business on the we
The wisdom of sales is best summed up by Nike, “Just do it”. Too many salespeople including myself will focus on developing a perfect sales plan before they make the first call. To often the perfect letter never reaches the client because it isn’t mailed. The sales call isn’t made because the salesperson doesn’t know the exact words to say.I write this article today without my proof readers’ approval. It will have some grammatical mistakes but it will reach the point on time and be on the digital highway. Why, because I just did it.One of the best mailers I ever sent was hand written on torn card board. It wasn’t fancy but it had a huge response. The message stood out from anything else on my prospects desk. If I had waited until my message w
As more and more people come to realize that content truly is king online these days, the issue of content and whether it's been used before by other websites has become much more critical. Nobody knows for sure just how much of a penalty Google and the other search engines place upon what they interpret to be duplicate content, but the fact that there is some penalty is without question.
Many people fear that by putting articles or content on their site without making any changes to them -- in other words, risk in that the same content is duplicated elsewhere -- will cause the search engines to ban their site, blacklist their domain or impose other drastic measures. The reality appears to be less severe, but still damaging if search engine traffic is important to you.
It would seem that the way the major search engines currently tackle the issue of duplicate content is, when they find it, to either downgrade the page that it is on in their index (in other words, cause your page to appear lower in their rankings) or, certainly in the case of Google anyway, they simply don't display it at all in the normal search results list, but lump it together with all other similar sites under a catchall "25 other sites with similar content."
So what can we do about it?
Just as nobody is certain exactly how much of a penalty the search engines will apply to sites carrying duplicate content, equally, there is no absolute consensus on how we can go about avoiding such a penalty. There appear to be currently different approaches. These are:
1. Ignore the problem.
Not, perhaps the most proactive of solutions, but still a fairly practical one. There does appear to be some evidence to suggest that even though the search engines are on the lookout the duplicate content, they still take some time to find it. On this basis. There are many people who choose to ignore the issue altogether and are happy to put duplicate content on their web pages on the understanding that although they will eventually, almost certainly, be delisted or downgraded, they're still like
Stick around for seven minutes to read this and you’ll learn the five things that will guarantee you to make money online.1. Great Product - Sell products that your target market is passionate about. Of course, your target market should be large enough and can afford to buy what you are offering. You need to show them your sizzling hot products, not some recycled old stuff that can be readily found elsewhere. There are internet tools that will help you find out what products are in high demand. There is wordtracker, goodkeywords, google trends and nichebot.2. Speed – The internet is about speed. It is the “I want it and I want it now!” Trying to figure out the perfect product takes an enormous amount of time and by the time it gets done
Many people fear that by putting articles or content on their site without making any changes to them -- in other words, risk in that the same content is duplicated elsewhere -- will cause the search engines to ban their site, blacklist their domain or impose other drastic measures. The reality appears to be less severe, but still damaging if search engine traffic is important to you.
It would seem that the way the major search engines currently tackle the issue of duplicate content is, when they find it, to either downgrade the page that it is on in their index (in other words, cause your page to appear lower in their rankings) or, certainly in the case of Google anyway, they simply don't display it at all in the normal search results list, but lump it together with all other similar sites under a catchall "25 other sites with similar content."
So what can we do about it?
Just as nobody is certain exactly how much of a penalty the search engines will apply to sites carrying duplicate content, equally, there is no absolute consensus on how we can go about avoiding such a penalty. There appear to be currently different approaches. These are:
1. Ignore the problem.
Not, perhaps the most proactive of solutions, but still a fairly practical one. There does appear to be some evidence to suggest that even though the search engines are on the lookout the duplicate content, they still take some time to find it. On this basis. There are many people who choose to ignore the issue altogether and are happy to put duplicate content on their web pages on the understanding that although they will eventually, almost certainly, be delisted or downgraded, they're still lik
Good Guy/Bad Guy is one of the best known negotiating gambits. Charles Dickens first wrote about it in his book Great Expectations. In the opening scene of the story, the young hero Pip is in the graveyard when out of the sinister mist comes a large, very frightening man. This man is a convict, and he has chains around his legs. He asks Pip to go into the village and bring back food and a file, so he can remove the chains. The convict has a dilemma, however. He wants to scare the child into doing as he's asked, yet he mustn't put so much pressure on Pip that he'll be frozen in place or bolt into town to tell the policeman.The solution to the convict's problem is to use the Good Guy/Bad Guy Gambit. Taking some liberty with the original work, what the convict
It would seem that the way the major search engines currently tackle the issue of duplicate content is, when they find it, to either downgrade the page that it is on in their index (in other words, cause your page to appear lower in their rankings) or, certainly in the case of Google anyway, they simply don't display it at all in the normal search results list, but lump it together with all other similar sites under a catchall "25 other sites with similar content."
So what can we do about it?
Just as nobody is certain exactly how much of a penalty the search engines will apply to sites carrying duplicate content, equally, there is no absolute consensus on how we can go about avoiding such a penalty. There appear to be currently different approaches. These are:
1. Ignore the problem.
Not, perhaps the most proactive of solutions, but still a fairly practical one. There does appear to be some evidence to suggest that even though the search engines are on the lookout the duplicate content, they still take some time to find it. On this basis. There are many people who choose to ignore the issue altogether and are happy to put duplicate content on their web pages on the understanding that although they will eventually, almost certainly, be delisted or downgraded, they're still lik
It’s a fact. If you have not looked for a job in the last few years, and even if you have, you probably don’t know how to do it. So please read on. It could mean the difference between being called in for an interview and being passed over for a more savvy-and better prepared-job candidate.Times have changed. OK, so I’m stating the obvious; but did you know that nowhere is this more relevant than in today’s successful job search strategy?If you are still thinking that all you have to do is create a pleasant, well-formatted “pretty” resume, put a stamp on the envelope, and mail it out, we have some serious talking to do. You had better read on.THREE RESUME FORMATS That’s right, you heard it. There are not one, but three, essenti
So what can we do about it?
Just as nobody is certain exactly how much of a penalty the search engines will apply to sites carrying duplicate content, equally, there is no absolute consensus on how we can go about avoiding such a penalty. There appear to be currently different approaches. These are:
1. Ignore the problem.
Not, perhaps the most proactive of solutions, but still a fairly practical one. There does appear to be some evidence to suggest that even though the search engines are on the lookout the duplicate content, they still take some time to find it. On this basis. There are many people who choose to ignore the issue altogether and are happy to put duplicate content on their web pages on the understanding that although they will eventually, almost certainly, be delisted or downgraded, they're still lik
Delegation is a subtle, yet vital art in business. It can work very effectively for you - but only if you use it well. And use it for the benefit of all involved. There is a vital 'ground rule' that you must accommodate. And that's around a clear 'level of authority' to act...Most business owners, managers and executives who are successful have a clear strategy for making the most of their own skills. To quote Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of easyJet, the originator of no-frills short-haul airlines in Europe, in their latest in-flight magazine:-"They find out what they're good at and delegate the rest."Nothing too amazing there then. Yet so many bosses fail to do this. They sit on stuff they
2. Make sure that around 30% of your page has content that is different to anybody else's.
This theory holds that the search engine isn't particularly interested in the article on your page, per se, but is more interested in the totality of the copy that appears on the page. This means that you can create introductory paragraphs, conclusion paragraphs and other copy embedded within the article to boost the number of words on the page so that the article itself represents 70% or less of the page's total.
This idea has many followers, not least because it is far easier to add new, and often randomized, content to a web page than it is to rewrite a whole article. There are several popular pieces of software available that automate the process.
3. Search engines check each sentence for duplication.
The idea here is the search engines are rather more sophisticated, and check each sentence on a page to see if it appears elsewhere on the Internet, and if it does, or if sufficient sentences within a page match other pages, the entire page is deemed to be duplicate content.
The only way to combat this is to make radical changes to the article itself. This involves substituting synonyms for as many of the words within each sentence as possible. While there are many programs available that offer synonym substitution, none of them currently can create human-readable versions of articles, totally automatically. The English language is rich in alternative words, but very very poor in true synonyms, and blindly substituting words without reference to their context almost always results in gibberish.
There are other, far better, programs that provide for user input to choose appropriate synonyms, and, by an
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