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We’ve all been warned again and again about the problems that duplicate can bring. However, the truth is that nowadays it is not really such a big deal anymore. This doesn’t mean that you should start plagiarising other people’s stuff and simply offer duplicate content on your site. What this does mean is that you shouldn’t stress out whenever scrapers decide to “syndicate” your content for you. The reason why I say this is that Google said so!
According to Sven Naumann “you shouldn’t be very concerned about seeing negative effects on your site’s presence on Google if you notice someone scraping your content” because Google is pretty good at determining which site is the original publisher of the content. Your site will NOT be penalised for the scraper’s work. Duplicate content WILL NOT lead to lower rankings for your website. The worst it can do for you is to have that section containing the duplicate content filtered out (meaning it wouldn’t affect your rank negatively nor positively). If you are recognised as the original publisher of the content though this wouldn’t even happen. To make sure that you get credit for the original work, make sure you only syndicate to websites that not only will give you a byline but will also link to your site. As for the scrapers don’t even think about them, again, Google says they’re good at figuring out which is which.
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published by Gary in Blogging | SEO
So… are you?
According to Urban Dictionary Googlecentric means having a view of the world centered around Google and Googling. In the example given it said that “My wife doesn’t belief that ____ exists because it wasn’t available on Google. She is Googlecentric.”
Of course so far I haven’t really searched for something that existed that I [...]
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A colleague of mine made an online purchase today (probably one of many). Included in a thank you for purchasing message was the following paragraph:
“Please help us to reduce our sponsored search costs (and so reduce our prices) by adding us to your Favorites before you leave
THANK YOU!”
So at least on person thinks that Google [...]
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published by Gary in General | News
The internet is abuzz with the Yahoo-Google deal. With all the news you can read instead of writing up a long post about it I will just provide links to some really good articles that pretty much sums up the different views regarding the deal. Before I do that though let me just point out [...]
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published by Hannah in SEO | Social Media | Viral Marketing
Though I do try to stay away from any political overtones in this blog I do believe that Dan’s post on Barack Obama Social Media Round-Up deserves being mentioned. Now I wouldn’t even comment on on my position, though I have to admit that it is pretty exciting to watch US politics these days, but [...]
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published by Hannah in Blogging | SEO | Social Media
In Dave Eave’s post on Building a Social Media Storm he outlined some ways of dealing with negative comments. According to him talking/reasoning with the negative commenters wouldn’t always work so that what you can do would be to:
Have all of your friends down vote the negative comments heavily
Ridicule or belittle the negative commenter(s) or [...]
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published by Hannah in SEO | Website Design
Mobile devices are so popular nowadays that the traffic that mobile search brings can no longer be discounted. Because of this plenty of websites now offer mobile versions of their website. If you already have a mobile site though you should make sure that you stay informed about the changes/improvements done by search engines in [...]
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published by Hannah in Blogging | SEO | Social Media | Wordpress
WordTwit is a new Wordpress plugin that’s would be very useful for twitterrers. It’s also a good way to promote your Wordpress blog on Twitter so that friends following you on Twitter but do not subscribe to your blog will know each time you put up a new blog post.
This is a great plugin for [...]
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published by Hannah in General | Rep. Management | SEO | SEO Basics | SEO Tips
If you are worried about the consequences of having your site hacked here are some useful info that should put your mind at ease, knowing that you know what to do in case it happens.
Google will delete you from their index but they will restore your URL in their index as soon as they confirm [...]
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published by Gary in Wordpress
If you haven’t heard of WordCamp yet and call yourself a Wordpress enthusiast then you’ll be happy to hear that it does exist. WordCamp is simply a group of Wordpress bloggers, designers, and developers that have come together to share their enthusiasm for Wordpress. Of course WordCamp is also supposed to be a sharing of [...]
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