What is duplicate content from the view of Google?

If you are SEO your blog with Article Spinning,from our previous post,you should know article Spinning software hurt SEO .From the point of blogger or content writer,It's important to know what kind of articles can define as duplicate contents from the view of Search engine especially Google.Previously Google was granted a patent with the name Duplicate document detection in a web crawler system. You can download a PDF version below this post You can download by selecting "save as target" ,then view it with PDF software like Adobe.Back to the topic ,the Google submitted patent explains how a content filter from the search engine can work with a duplicate content server.

What is duplicate content from the view of Google?

    The patent contains a definition of duplicate content: "Duplicate documents are documents that have substantially identical content, and in some embodiments wholly identical content, but different document addresses."

    The patent describes three scenarios in which duplicate documents are encountered by a web crawler:

       1. Two pages, comprising any combination of regular web page(s) and temporary redirect page(s), are duplicate documents if they share the same page content, but have different URLs.

       2. Two temporary redirect pages are duplicate documents if they share the same target URL, but have different source URLs.

       3. A regular web page and a temporary redirect page are duplicate documents if the URL of the regular web page is the target URL of the temporary redirect page or the content of the regular web page is the same as that of the temporary redirect page.

    A permanent redirect page is not directly involved in duplicate document detection because the crawlers are configured not to download the content of the redirecting page.

How does Google detect duplicate content?

    According to the patent description, Google's web crawler consults the duplicate content server to check if a found page is a copy of another document. The algorithm then determines which version is the most important version.

    Google can use different methods to detect duplicate content. For example, Google might take "content fingerprints" and compare them when a new web page is found.

    Interestingly, it's not always the page with the highest PageRank that is chosen as the most important URL for the content:

    "In some embodiments, a canonical page of an equivalence class is not necessarily the document that has the highest score (e.g., the highest page rank or other query-independent metric)."

How does this affect your website?

To get high rankings, it is easier to do so with unique content. Try to use as much original content as possible on your web pages.

    If your website must use the same content as another website, make sure that your website has better inbound links than the other websites that carry the same content. It's likely that your website will be chosen as the most important URL for the content then.

If your web site has unique content, you don't have to worry about potential duplicate content penalties. Optimize that content for search engines and make sure that your web site has good inbound links. It's hard to outrank a website with good optimized content and many good inbound links.


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