It's not google's fault the market is filled with identical companies, using the same vanilla product descriptions provided from their suppliers. True innovative e-commerce sites are writing their own product descriptions and setting themselves apart and that's why they rank well. Using AdWords probably also helps ;)

That's awesome. I had no idea.

Hi Denise - I agree. Too often people sound the alarm at even the mention of the term "duplicate content". But as Matt points out, as much as 20% or more of the web is duplicate content. It's really more about how you use the content and whether you use it in a way that offers value to your audience.

***** Bingo! Glad you chimed in. :-)

Fes is the oldest university in the world and the oldest moroccan city ^^ could be..but i was also asking my self why fes ^^

No, and how could it even be possible?

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You want those pages to be indexed if it's feasible for someone to enter your site there via search engine. If you want to force users to go to a certain page, you should use rel cannonical as outlined here: support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en

For categories and tags ARCHIVES, what you want to do is always only to display *excerpts* to your actual posts, never the entire posts (duplicates) to appear on tag and categories archives. This alone should get rid of any alleged dupe content problem since you won't have more than ONE actual copy of your post/page on your site. There is nothing wrong with having tag and categories archive pages "open" to the search engines as long as both archives are meaningful. (Just avoid that you use the same terms/slugs for tags and categories. You cannot do that anyway...for example you cannot have a TAG "dogs" on a site and a category "dogs" since tags/categories are pretty much handled in the same way. A good website structure should be figured out before, like what categories you will have and how you will tag them...and then a dupe problem shouldn't even come about when this is done right). Any decent WP theme should anyway only display excerpts on the archive pages, there is only ONE URL where you *entire* content is found, the URL of your actual post/page. I myself usually have tags/category archives open but "noindex" to all other archives like date archives, author archives, etc..

Yep Feeeeeeez :D

Even IF that would be allowed by KZfaq, and I think it would, that would certainly help you to reduce your rankings drastically and any new videos you upload would have a terrible time to rank decently in KZfaq search.

Primarily what I would do in your situation is to submit a DMCA request to Google here, goo.gl/zwiq8 and thereafter I may have to wait until Google removes that website ranking for your content in SERPs. However there isn't a definite guarantee that you could regain your lost rankings (although there is a good chance that you could), if some of your competitors outrank you in the process.

Nope if having those unique forms for each state improves the user experience then its not an issue with the duplicate content. However if you are also duplicating page content on each of the multiple URLs then remember to use canonical tags correctly

Generally, Google doesn't penalize for duplicate content, it will just simply serve up one version vs others. If Google feels that these 10 pages are duplicate, it will show one in the SERPs and the rest deep in the index. Can you describe further (or give an example) of what you mean by "I have one particular article page that was sorted into 10 separate pages." You can set parameters in Google WMT to let Google know how your CMS handles your example.

Not necessarily a penalty, but in results only one of them would rank. If you want to drive users from search results to a specific one of these pages, it might be a good idea to put a rel cannonical tag on the duplicate pages. See: support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en for more info.

Patrick's correct. The right way to handle this is with canonicalization. The canonical version of the page is the one you want to display in the SERPs; the other versions should have a link in the section of the HTML pointing to the canonical version. (See his webmaster forum link.)

Darin Pirkey Hi Darin, I cleaned up all of my duplicate content issues using 301 redirects and for my category pages I used rel=canonical. I think I'm all set now. Here's the page I was referring to before that's no longer an issue. www.simplyadditions.com/Article

9 of those 10 page will in all likelihood land up in the supplementary index and not appear in the search results.

Abhijit P yes it does.

No... he said "ohh" when he saw that it was someone asking all the way from the UK.

GeekyNet Yes that was my point, he came across as surprised about the UK bit, then later says he wanted to answer this question because it is common. In other words he knew the question before making the video lol. Not that it matters I just thought it was funny.