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duplicate content - seo question
I’m using true tag navigation to link related posts in my photoblog.
Recently I had started using links within article text to suggest related articles as well.
I did this because based on my visitor logs users weren’t visiting related posts. Even if the same user landed on the site multiple times from multiple google queries.
My question is if I use links in article text that links to the same content as a a related tag could I be at risk of duplicate content?
thanks
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Re: duplicate content - seo question
I assume you’re concerned about Google’s penalties for duplicate navigation? I haven’t seen the specific sort of behavior you’re mentioning cause any penalties—indeed, it’s used all the time on successful websites—and search engines seem pretty good at distinguishing between article content and supplemental navigation.
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Re: duplicate content - seo question
No I mean duplicate content. But it’s the same thing we’re talking about. I read it on google’s duplicate content page. Multiple links pointing to the same content seems to be one definition of duplicate content that they are discouraging. You make a good point though, if the link in the article is content itself it might be ok. That makes sense, thanks.
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Re: duplicate content - seo question
I did changed some of my tags that were too similar though, I mean that returned lists of almost all the same articles.
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Re: duplicate content - seo question
If you still want to have all those links but want google to keep just one link to your preferred address you can use rel="canonical" to tell google the link to store as described here and here.
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Re: duplicate content - seo question
ah nice. thanks.
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