Comments on: Reduce Duplicate Content to Improve Search Engine Rankings http://www.firstrate.co.nz/blog/reduce-duplicate-content-to-improve-search-rankings/ Online marketing: search engine advertising and marketing Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:48:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mike http://www.firstrate.co.nz/blog/reduce-duplicate-content-to-improve-search-rankings/comment-page-1/#comment-676 Mike Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:29:09 +0000 http://www.firstrate.co.nz/blog/?p=911#comment-676 Thanks for your comments John. Yes, I only commented on 301 redirects briefly, but you are right, they are one of the fundamental techniques for handling duplicate content issues. Thanks for your comments John.

Yes, I only commented on 301 redirects briefly, but you are right, they are one of the fundamental techniques for handling duplicate content issues.

]]> By: John Chen http://www.firstrate.co.nz/blog/reduce-duplicate-content-to-improve-search-rankings/comment-page-1/#comment-675 John Chen Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:02:55 +0000 http://www.firstrate.co.nz/blog/?p=911#comment-675 Nice tips, although I would have mentioned using 301 in htaccess as the primary method to stop content duplication issues with search engines. Especially from your first example : * http://www.example.com/ * http://example.com/ * http://www.example.com/index.html * http://example.com/index.html CMS are notorious for duplicating content. In this case using the Robots metatag is very handy. canonicals are good for ecommerce websites that need to display product info across many pages on the domain. Note to the newbies as well. If you are copying the content from other websites, using these tactics will not help you. :) Nice tips, although I would have mentioned using 301 in htaccess as the primary method to stop content duplication issues with search engines.

Especially from your first example :

* http://www.example.com/
* http://example.com/
* http://www.example.com/index.html
* http://example.com/index.html

CMS are notorious for duplicating content. In this case using the Robots metatag is very handy.

canonicals are good for ecommerce websites that need to display product info across many pages on the domain.

Note to the newbies as well. If you are copying the content from other websites, using these tactics will not help you. :)

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