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Would this kind of arrangement cause problems with duplicate content?

by aprilm
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Hi. I just have a general question. I guess it's about duplicate content. I have a wordpress blog and it is an review/affiliate based site. Anyway, i review a couple different product on my site, and each product has similiar and different features. My thoughts were to place each review post into multiple categories that describe the different features.

For example, product A has features 1, 2, and 3.
Product B has features 2, 3, and 4
I create categories for all features 1,2,3, and 4

Would it be unwise to place product A in categories 1,2, and 3 and place product B in categories 2,3, and 4?

So when people scroll through my categories and wish to view products that offer features in category, both product A and B posts will come up. (hope that makes sense)

Would that create duplicate content issues? My plan for the category pages will be to use the 'more' tag on all posts so not the full post comes up and also noindex my category pages.

Thanks!





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  • Profile picture of the author usearchme2
    Hi there

    I think you may be over thinking it a little, duplicate content issues `usually` come from 2 pages being the same or as near as.

    If you think about it most sites have duplicate content somewhere, as most sites have global menus thru the site with the same links on them, but the search engines allow for this, its really not an issue, the only problem you might have is if you wrote descriptions that were exactly the same for each product or something like that. Which of course no one sane would do lol !

    Hope that makes sense anyhow.

    Woc
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Ask yourself this question,
      "Am I creating this content to fool, trick, or otherwise
      skew search engines, mainly google?"

      If the answer to that is no, there is no problem.

      Paul
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      If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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      • Profile picture of the author GuerrillaIM
        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        Ask yourself this question,
        "Am I creating this content to fool, trick, or otherwise
        skew search engines, mainly google?"

        If the answer to that is no, there is no problem.

        Paul
        Not necessarily.

        Imagine you have a page on a Ferrari 360. This page could possibly be found through more than one breadcrumb, for example:

        Cars > Articles > Ferrari
        Ferrari > 360

        Those breadbrumbs could lead to same page. Now google wont penalize you for this, they will just choose one to rank, but, lets say people are linking to the article as it is a good article. They may link to either page, so the SEO is diluted.

        Using a canonical URL you will be able to specify that the pages are related and which page you would like to rank, and Google will process backlinks to both pages as if it was one page.
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        • Profile picture of the author aprilm
          Originally Posted by GuerrillaIM View Post

          Using a canonical URL you will be able to specify that the pages are related and which page you would like to rank, and Google will process backlinks to both pages as if it was one page.
          What is a 'canonical' url?
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  • Profile picture of the author GuerrillaIM
    If the same content can be found through different breadcrumbs then use canonical URL's so that your SEO does not get watered down.
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  • Profile picture of the author Megafoo
    I've heard of a lot of people having issues with dupe content on e-commerce sites, it's really a bummer, especially when you have similar products.
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  • Profile picture of the author GuerrillaIM
    What is a canonical URL? <- Here
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