Comments on: Duplicate Content Controlled Naturally Through Themes

By: Conseils de Lorelle sur le Duplicate Content | WordPress tuto

Conseils de Lorelle sur le Duplicate Content | WordPress tuto — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:37:46 +0000

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By: Dewald - Fighting WordPress Duplicate Content

Dewald - Fighting WordPress Duplicate Content — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:54:13 +0000

Lorelle, the results that I’ve seen with my plugin have been remarkable in terms of eliminating duplicate content issues.

What I wanted to do was make each page view of a particular page unique.

If each page view were unique, it wouldn’t matter if someone stole a copy from the blog, because they would only steal one of many different versions of the page. When the search engine bot visits the page, it finds an alternate version from the one that was stolen, and hence doesn’t consider it a duplicate.

Same goes for the same post content that appears on different pages on the blog.

It takes some work, but it definitely works.

By: Japan Senkoji

Japan Senkoji — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:56:47 +0000

Thank you for introducing the event of Japan. I am very glad.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:54:30 +0000

I’m not familiar with Goarticle. Is is a splog or does it get permission for reprinting articles? If it is a “trusted site”, then it shouldn’t have problems. If it is an aggregator which publishes full content, it should do so with permissions. If not, then it can be classified as a splog and therefore, can hurt your page ranking under the issues of duplicate content, to my understanding.

By: Stock Trader

Stock Trader — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:00:12 +0000

Thanks for the info. Lorelle, I’m always using stuff on my financial blog that I get from other sources (otherwise I could never write anything, as I can’t just make it up!) I always try to reword or rewrite it and add some of my own thoughts but I’ve often wondered about the duplicate content aspect. What about article directories like Goarticle - do you know if that leads to problems with duplicate content?

By: Drive By Blogging - July 5th

Drive By Blogging - July 5th — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:40:26 +0000

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By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:46:30 +0000

Creative Commons licenses are simple and easy. Just go to the site and I think they have a simple question and answer program that helps you to determine what license you need for which usage of your content. As you will hear on the podcast, the Creative Commons license is nice, and the latest versions are better, but they do not replace Copyright Law. Your content is automatically copyrighted, but it helps to have a copyright policy and statement on your blog posts, like I have, and it helps even more to register your content, which is discussed throughly by Plagiarism Today. As for the Subscribe to Comments WordPress Plugin, this is a WordPress.com blog and we cannot have WordPress Plugins. If you want to monitor comments, you can do so by blog post comment feed (RSS feed for this post) or for the comments for the entire blog (Entire Blog Comments Feed).

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:53:05 +0000

Thanks Lorelle. I may go with a Creative Commons license if I can figure out how to use it.

BTW. One thing I am really missing here is a possibility to subscribe to alerts by email when a new comment is made. I almost forgot that I commented here as I sometimes comment in more blogs during a day. If it isn’t wordpress.com preventing it you should really consider it as it is pretty good.

By: Lincoln

Lincoln — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:12:22 +0000

Thanks for the insight Ozh! Now to go create 2000 pages of content.

By: Kian Ann

Kian Ann — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:36:15 +0000

Thanks Lorelle for the tip. Actually this was exactly what I did for my own blog theme - preventing the exact same content from appearing in two URLs by switching between excerpts and full posts.

Anyway, I think we shouldn’t worry too much about duplicate content - my gut feel is that the Google will be able to work it out that it is a blog and they don’t expect everyone to be SEO trained, so duplicate content rules should be relaxed within the blog.

But of course, there are cases of blog pages dropped to supplemental results.