Types of Duplicate Contents, And How They Are Filtered

Duplicate Content has turn out to be a huge subject of discussion lately. And for that, thanks to the content filters that search engines have applied for duplicate content. This article will help you know about duplicate contents and how they get filtered.

Type of Duplicate Content:

There are mainly four kinds of duplicate content that are filtered out:

1.       Websites with Duplicate Pages: These pages are marked as duplicate. Also, websites that are matching to some other site is also considered to be duplicate content. This means sites with the same appearance and feel which contain the same contents. And they are much likely to be exposed to a duplicate content filter. Another example is websites with doorway pages. These doorways are often twisted versions of landing pages. Yet, these landing pages are matching to other landing pages. Normally, doorway pages are planned to be used to spam the search engines. And the idea is to manipulate search engine results.

2.       Scraped Content: Scraped content is collecting contents from a web site, and “recycling” it to make it look different. Still, in reality, it is nothing other than a duplicate page. Scraping is becoming really bad for search engines nowadays.

3.       E-Commerce Product Descriptions: Many e-commerce sites out there use the company's descriptions for the merchandises. And hundreds or thousands of other e-commerce stores in the similar competitive markets are using those too. This contents might be harder to filter as duplicate, but they are still considered as spam.

4.       Sharing of Articles: If you post an article, it may get copied and put all over the Internet. Now you may think this is good right? But this sort of duplicate content can be problematic. That is because:-

Yahoo and MSN can track the source of the original article. Then shows it as most relevant in search results. But other search engines, like Google may not.

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So how does a search engine filters duplicate contents? Well, when a search engine spider crawls a site, it reads the pages. Then it notes the info in its database. After that, it compares its results to other info previously stored in its database. Then it decides which are duplicate contents. Finally, it filters out the pages or the sites that are considered as spam. Problem is, if your pages have enough similar content which are not spams, they may still be considered as spam. So keep in mind what Tom Landry said, “Setting an objective is not the foremost thing. It is determining how you will go about accomplishing it and continuing with that plan.” – and always plan carefully.

~ Judy Foster