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By: Kian Ann

Kian Ann — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 03:57:52 +0000

Hey James and Shi,

Yes, James, you are right - I think we all should define the difference between “ignore” and “penalize”.

Come to think of it, in this case for duplicated content is it really necessary to use a robots.txt file? Is it better to have them off the index altogether (using robots.txt), or leave them in the supplemental index?

By: TIMMGuru

TIMMGuru — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:03:33 +0000

James,

I agree with your reasoning. Google doesn’t penalize websites that publish duplicated stuff, it just ignores them. Going into “supplemental” isn’t a penalty, it is an advice from Google that we’ll have to buck up with better content - fresh and unique ones.

In my opinion, penalty would be having a website blacklisted from Google and have none of your pages listed in Google.

Use the ’site:’ operator to find out how many of your pages are indexed by Google, at the Google search box type:

site:blogopreneur.com

To find out who is using your content, try http://www.copyscape.com

By: James Lim

James Lim — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:15:28 +0000

Actually, i’m not too sure abt your statement regarding Google coming down hard on duplicate content. There are many extremely good content out there that are illegally or unknowingly duplicated by other websites and it wld hardly be right to penalize the originator. I think penalize is not the right word, but rather discounted or ignored is perhaps better? You don’t get demerit points for having duplicate content, its just that you don’t gain additional points. My 2 cents

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By: Kian Ann

Kian Ann — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:50:28 +0000

Thanks Glenn, will go have a look at the video.

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Glenn Tan — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 04:54:51 +0000

Hi Kian Ann,

Wow, this is scary alright.But abit unethical too.
Anyway, i came here for a purpose ! haha..

I just posted on a video by Rick Warren and i hope you can take a look to learn something from it ya?
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By: Kian Ann

Kian Ann — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:06:46 +0000

Hey Larry,

Thanks for your thoughts. I read about some plugins for wordpress too. I guess Google really has to buck up a little in terms of identifying who is the orignal author or publisher of any content!

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By: Larry Lim

Larry Lim — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:31:58 +0000

Google has a problem with duplicate content and it’s been discussed for a while. Scrapper sites use RSS to “hijack” your content and call it their own, and some of these sites may actually rank higher than the source because Google has no way of determining which is the original author.

What about “duplicate” content on the same domain? I’ve not had problems with regular HTML/PHP pages but I just found out yesterday that many of my older blog posts have fallen into the dreaded Supplemental Index.

It seems Google has a problem with Wordpress too, i.e. it considers the same post on the index, categories, archives and rss feed as duplicates.

I read a bit this morning and you’re right that robots.txt may be the best solution, although I did see one or two plugins.