The reason I'm asking is that ALL the major sites in any niche clearly use the same content for reviews of items where there are different colour options.
In otherwords wh
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I've just done a post on this that might clear things up a little more
http://www.muslimahwebdesign.co.uk/wordpresstutorials/duplicate-content-penalty-myth/
To a point yes, although I don't understand what All in One SEO does to prevent it.
"You can enable Canonical URL’s in the General section of the All In One SEO plugin section. You will want to tick it so that it generate canonical URL’s for your entire site. That is what will prevent duplicate content."
How? What does it do to tell Google to crawl one page but not another with the same content?
Matt Cutts, head of Google webspam team, on duplicate content:
It's important to realize that if you look at content on the web, something like 25 or 30 percent of all of the web's content is duplicate content. … People will quote a paragraph of a blog and then link to the blog, that sort of thing. So it's not the case that every single time there's duplicate content it's spam, and if we made that assumption the changes that happened as a result would end up probably hurting our search quality rather than helping our search quality.
Yes, pretty much the point I'm making, that just because I have duplicated something doesn't mean it's spam and should not be considered as such.
Similar content is ok, even using the same keywords in multiple posts is ok, but if you are duplicating exact content that's not good for your ranking.
Their ranking may be good enough to not worry about it or possibly they do some kind of "do not follow" thingy to the crawlers and dont index it?
We're not talking similar, we're talking 100% exact copies with the only difference being the colour of the item. you have all seen them, where you select your colour and get taken to a completely different page with the selected colour on it, but otherwise identical in every way.
That's the thing, we're told that exact content duping isn't good but nobody seems to know why. Yet big companies, even those that set up new sites, all do it. Every single one of them.
Some of these companies spend fortunes on SEO so why would they do it if it's that bad?
It also ties in with something I heard from a CEO of an international corporation recently that it's a big myth that search engines read the whole content of a page or post, they only the first 160 words which is why the first 160 is so important. That makes sense to me in a lot of ways. You often see content high in search results where the first part of the blog relates to what you searched for but the rest of it is about something completely different. It's the second time I've heard that said recently - the other time was from an affiliate marketing manager.
I think the only way to know is try it and see what happens. It could be OK depending on what the content is. Or you could not index the other pages.
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How big a deal is repeat content on your own site?
The reason I'm asking is that ALL the major sites in any niche clearly use the same content for reviews of items where there are different colour options.
In otherwords wh
Hi
I've just done a post on this that might clear things up a little more
http://www.muslimahwebdesign.co.uk/wordpresstutorials/duplicate-content-penalty-myth/
To a point yes, although I don't understand what All in One SEO does to prevent it.
"You can enable Canonical URL’s in the General section of the All In One SEO plugin section. You will want to tick it so that it generate canonical URL’s for your entire site. That is what will prevent duplicate content."
How? What does it do to tell Google to crawl one page but not another with the same content?
Matt Cutts, head of Google webspam team, on duplicate content:
It's important to realize that if you look at content on the web, something like 25 or 30 percent of all of the web's content is duplicate content. … People will quote a paragraph of a blog and then link to the blog, that sort of thing. So it's not the case that every single time there's duplicate content it's spam, and if we made that assumption the changes that happened as a result would end up probably hurting our search quality rather than helping our search quality.
Yes, pretty much the point I'm making, that just because I have duplicated something doesn't mean it's spam and should not be considered as such.
Similar content is ok, even using the same keywords in multiple posts is ok, but if you are duplicating exact content that's not good for your ranking.
Their ranking may be good enough to not worry about it or possibly they do some kind of "do not follow" thingy to the crawlers and dont index it?
We're not talking similar, we're talking 100% exact copies with the only difference being the colour of the item. you have all seen them, where you select your colour and get taken to a completely different page with the selected colour on it, but otherwise identical in every way.
That's the thing, we're told that exact content duping isn't good but nobody seems to know why. Yet big companies, even those that set up new sites, all do it. Every single one of them.
Some of these companies spend fortunes on SEO so why would they do it if it's that bad?
It also ties in with something I heard from a CEO of an international corporation recently that it's a big myth that search engines read the whole content of a page or post, they only the first 160 words which is why the first 160 is so important. That makes sense to me in a lot of ways. You often see content high in search results where the first part of the blog relates to what you searched for but the rest of it is about something completely different. It's the second time I've heard that said recently - the other time was from an affiliate marketing manager.
I think the only way to know is try it and see what happens. It could be OK depending on what the content is. Or you could not index the other pages.
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A total scumbag I have had issues with on ebay has left a negative feedback on there - big deal - but has also left a vindictive and partly untrue review on Google+.
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Good luck. I'd like to know how it turns out with Google too. It doesn't seem right that you wouldn't be able to report someone for abuse, spam or harassment.
I know, especially as the issue was relating to an ebay transaction rather than the website which sells related but completely different items.
You know, I don't think there is a way. I've been told that the person putting the review up, can change it, but I've also heard the person getting the review, is stuck with it. I would suggest hunting down the right department there as a start. You may be in it for the long haul!
Sorry to hear the news. I would be very interested in finding this out myself!
Rick
The strange thing is I keep adding a reply yet the reply keeps disappearing. Part of the reply is in the form of the abusive and threatening message he sent me on ebay, and I can only assume that Google is filtering it out because of the abusive text.
I've tried looking for the right department, that's just it, there isn't one. Strange that we're expected to behave professionally yet Google can behave how they please
No, I know all about ebay Cathy, I've traded on there for years. This is relating to a comment/review he left on Google about my business, not the comment he left on ebay feedback. I appreciate you are trying to help.
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How do i complain to google about a bad review?
A total scumbag I have had issues with on ebay has left a negative feedback on there - big deal - but has also left a vindictive and partly untrue review on Google+.
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Good luck. I'd like to know how it turns out with Google too. It doesn't seem right that you wouldn't be able to report someone for abuse, spam or harassment.
I know, especially as the issue was relating to an ebay transaction rather than the website which sells related but completely different items.
You know, I don't think there is a way. I've been told that the person putting the review up, can change it, but I've also heard the person getting the review, is stuck with it. I would suggest hunting down the right department there as a start. You may be in it for the long haul!
Sorry to hear the news. I would be very interested in finding this out myself!
Rick
The strange thing is I keep adding a reply yet the reply keeps disappearing. Part of the reply is in the form of the abusive and threatening message he sent me on ebay, and I can only assume that Google is filtering it out because of the abusive text.
I've tried looking for the right department, that's just it, there isn't one. Strange that we're expected to behave professionally yet Google can behave how they please
No, I know all about ebay Cathy, I've traded on there for years. This is relating to a comment/review he left on Google about my business, not the comment he left on ebay feedback. I appreciate you are trying to help.
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As per the title, does it help with ranking or for any other reason if you attach your images to the relevant pages?
I'm not talking about adding an image to a page, I'm t
Okey I see what you mean. When it says Unattached it means you have uploaded the picture to your library but the picture is not attached to any of the pages in your website.
You can leave the picture in your media for later use or you can delete the picture if you think you wont need it for something.
Or you can attach it to a page that would be relevant to the picture.
Yes I know, but that's not the point. You can add a picture to your page or post, for example by using the "Add media" button but it will still show as Unattached in your media library.
Do be aware that attaching a picture to a page (via the "attach" function in your media library) doesn't actually insert the picture into that page, hence the reason I'm curious about it's purpose.
Okey let me explain it better. The picture is unattached to a link on your page. So the picture can appear somewhere on your website by it does not have a link attached which could direct you to another place on the web.
Nope, sorry you have lost me Nick. If you attach the picture to a page, the picture still doesn't appear on that page - you still can't see it on the page. So I don't see the point of it.
Okey then the other solution is if you have an Ad-Blogger active, this will prevent you from seeing images you attached or inserted because it sees it as spam. Maybe disconnect Ad-Blogger for that page, then you'd be able to see it.
Does this answer your question?
Sorry Nick, you have completely misunderstood this post. I'm not looking for a solution to a problem here. This is nothing to do with seeing images in your page.
What I am saying is that if you go to your media library and 'attach' an image to your page from the 'Unattached' column in your media library, that picture doesn't show in your page.
However, that's not the point, I'm not bothered about that. That's not the issue I'm trying to discuss here, we are going off in a completely different direction.
This is why I said in the original post (with all due respect), if you don't know don't guess because it just confuses the issue. I'm not asking anything about displaying the image in the page, what I am trying to ask is this:
"By attaching an image to a page or post (using the "attach" function in your media library) does it help with ranking?" It doesn't show the image in the post so if not for ranking or SEO what's it's purpose then?"
Well I was thinking it might help with ranking, if you add a description and/or alt.text to your images and attach them to the relevant post.
I would love to know, as I say the function must be there for a reason!
I have no idea and to be honest never thought about it I just thought it was not actually linked till we added it, be interested to know though
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Attaching images to pages does it help?
As per the title, does it help with ranking or for any other reason if you attach your images to the relevant pages?
I'm not talking about adding an image to a page, I'm t
Okey I see what you mean. When it says Unattached it means you have uploaded the picture to your library but the picture is not attached to any of the pages in your website.
You can leave the picture in your media for later use or you can delete the picture if you think you wont need it for something.
Or you can attach it to a page that would be relevant to the picture.
Yes I know, but that's not the point. You can add a picture to your page or post, for example by using the "Add media" button but it will still show as Unattached in your media library.
Do be aware that attaching a picture to a page (via the "attach" function in your media library) doesn't actually insert the picture into that page, hence the reason I'm curious about it's purpose.
Okey let me explain it better. The picture is unattached to a link on your page. So the picture can appear somewhere on your website by it does not have a link attached which could direct you to another place on the web.
Nope, sorry you have lost me Nick. If you attach the picture to a page, the picture still doesn't appear on that page - you still can't see it on the page. So I don't see the point of it.
Okey then the other solution is if you have an Ad-Blogger active, this will prevent you from seeing images you attached or inserted because it sees it as spam. Maybe disconnect Ad-Blogger for that page, then you'd be able to see it.
Does this answer your question?
Sorry Nick, you have completely misunderstood this post. I'm not looking for a solution to a problem here. This is nothing to do with seeing images in your page.
What I am saying is that if you go to your media library and 'attach' an image to your page from the 'Unattached' column in your media library, that picture doesn't show in your page.
However, that's not the point, I'm not bothered about that. That's not the issue I'm trying to discuss here, we are going off in a completely different direction.
This is why I said in the original post (with all due respect), if you don't know don't guess because it just confuses the issue. I'm not asking anything about displaying the image in the page, what I am trying to ask is this:
"By attaching an image to a page or post (using the "attach" function in your media library) does it help with ranking?" It doesn't show the image in the post so if not for ranking or SEO what's it's purpose then?"
Well I was thinking it might help with ranking, if you add a description and/or alt.text to your images and attach them to the relevant post.
I would love to know, as I say the function must be there for a reason!
I have no idea and to be honest never thought about it I just thought it was not actually linked till we added it, be interested to know though
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Yes yes, I know that if you type site:www.mywebsite.co.uk into Google, it comes up with the number of results. Except the problem is that number is wrong. It's way out.
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Well I haven't had an in-depth look at it but as far as I could tell the Index figure that SEO Quake was showing appeared to be exactly the same result that I was getting when I did the "site:www.mywebsite.com" search in Google for the relevant sites I was searching for.
get SEO Quake plugin for chrome/firefox, and enable it, it will tell you how many pages Google, Yahoo and Bing have indexed for the site you run it on.
Turn it off after, or it will slow things down heaps, good luck, Andy
Sometimes it does help. Recently, I've found a site that doesn't have a sitemap but I Googled it in the way that I explained to you and it gave me an exact number of that site's pages.
İf you want to know the number of pages of any website you can try to type the name of the website in Google, for example, www.site.com and add sitemap word to that. www.site.com sitemap
Thanks, I think I know what you mean now, but I don't think that will give the results I am looking for
www.mywebsite.com doesn't exist, but is often used to explain on posts where you have to put your website url. So thats why it has 21.200 pages lists.
No, you have completely misunderstood. That's exactly what I doing, I am using www.mywebsite.com in place of my own site to explain what I am doing (without having to reveal the actual name of my site here). The ACTUAL site I am trying to check in Google is my own site, and that of competitors.
When I search for MY OWN website using the full URL, Google shows 21,200 results, yet my site only has around 150 pages.
Sorry, I don't understand what you mean (unless you have misunderstood my post and it has got lost in translation). Could you be more specific?
Alexa doesn't tell you anything except the global ranking - and that's wildly inaccurate - unless you pay for a subscription to access more details.
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How do i check the size of a website?
Yes yes, I know that if you type site:www.mywebsite.co.uk into Google, it comes up with the number of results. Except the problem is that number is wrong. It's way out.
I'
Well I haven't had an in-depth look at it but as far as I could tell the Index figure that SEO Quake was showing appeared to be exactly the same result that I was getting when I did the "site:www.mywebsite.com" search in Google for the relevant sites I was searching for.
get SEO Quake plugin for chrome/firefox, and enable it, it will tell you how many pages Google, Yahoo and Bing have indexed for the site you run it on.
Turn it off after, or it will slow things down heaps, good luck, Andy
Sometimes it does help. Recently, I've found a site that doesn't have a sitemap but I Googled it in the way that I explained to you and it gave me an exact number of that site's pages.
İf you want to know the number of pages of any website you can try to type the name of the website in Google, for example, www.site.com and add sitemap word to that. www.site.com sitemap
Thanks, I think I know what you mean now, but I don't think that will give the results I am looking for
www.mywebsite.com doesn't exist, but is often used to explain on posts where you have to put your website url. So thats why it has 21.200 pages lists.
No, you have completely misunderstood. That's exactly what I doing, I am using www.mywebsite.com in place of my own site to explain what I am doing (without having to reveal the actual name of my site here). The ACTUAL site I am trying to check in Google is my own site, and that of competitors.
When I search for MY OWN website using the full URL, Google shows 21,200 results, yet my site only has around 150 pages.
Sorry, I don't understand what you mean (unless you have misunderstood my post and it has got lost in translation). Could you be more specific?
Alexa doesn't tell you anything except the global ranking - and that's wildly inaccurate - unless you pay for a subscription to access more details.
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We're back on subdomains again folks!
I'm trying to add my sidebar (from my main site) to my subdomain, so the appearance of the subdomain is exactly the same as the main
No, that isn't necessary. On your subdomain you create a sidebar menu with links (one of the possibilities in menu creation) put the titles of your main website pages and add the link to these pages. That's all.
If you don't see the "links" tab open in clicking on screen options.
Ah, right yes I think I know what you mean. So I create a menu and instead of adding a new page I create a link back to the page on my original site, and give the link the same name as the original page (the one the link would point to). Is that right?
I'm actually thinking about doing that myself soon. But, I was thinking of setting up the sub domain for what I want it for, then connecting the sub domain by a page in my menu from the main site. I don't know if that will work better.
Sorry, no that's irrelevant. As far as I know it doesn't matter how you connect to it, you're simply linking to it just as you would link to any other site, for example an affiliate link. It's the appearance of the actual pages on the subdomain that is the issue here.
I might not have made it entirely clear. I want the same sidebars on the pages on my subdomain as I have on the main site. But because the subdomain is a completely different site effectively; a new Wordpress install, it means effectively duplicating everything from the main site over to the subdomain in order for it to look the same.
That means setting up sidebars, menus and widgets etc. on the subdomain in exactly the same way as you do on the main site so that it looks exactly the same, then redirecting every link in the sidebar back to the main site.
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Subdomain menu setup and redirection issues advice needed?
We're back on subdomains again folks!
I'm trying to add my sidebar (from my main site) to my subdomain, so the appearance of the subdomain is exactly the same as the main
No, that isn't necessary. On your subdomain you create a sidebar menu with links (one of the possibilities in menu creation) put the titles of your main website pages and add the link to these pages. That's all.
If you don't see the "links" tab open in clicking on screen options.
Ah, right yes I think I know what you mean. So I create a menu and instead of adding a new page I create a link back to the page on my original site, and give the link the same name as the original page (the one the link would point to). Is that right?
I'm actually thinking about doing that myself soon. But, I was thinking of setting up the sub domain for what I want it for, then connecting the sub domain by a page in my menu from the main site. I don't know if that will work better.
Sorry, no that's irrelevant. As far as I know it doesn't matter how you connect to it, you're simply linking to it just as you would link to any other site, for example an affiliate link. It's the appearance of the actual pages on the subdomain that is the issue here.
I might not have made it entirely clear. I want the same sidebars on the pages on my subdomain as I have on the main site. But because the subdomain is a completely different site effectively; a new Wordpress install, it means effectively duplicating everything from the main site over to the subdomain in order for it to look the same.
That means setting up sidebars, menus and widgets etc. on the subdomain in exactly the same way as you do on the main site so that it looks exactly the same, then redirecting every link in the sidebar back to the main site.
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the link Domw gives explains it all good for me to know to