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HELP! - duplicate content is killing me

by Martin N Smith
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Hi all,

I have a problem.

I've created a nice, clean, SEO friendly blog with lots of high PR backlinks, a KW rich domain name, and all the usual on-site optimisation.

The site itself has been setup to do one thing - direct visitors to a 'white label' shop, managed by an affiliate. If the visitor buys something in the shop, I get a % of the sale price. I'm sure you get the picture.

Anyway, the shop is located at shop.mydomain.com.

I issue I have is that the affiliate in question has literally hundreds of these white label shops scattered all of the internet. The shop has at least 10 pages, all of which contain exactly the same content as all the other shops.

Does anyone know how I get round the issue of duplicate content issue in the shop (from an SEO perspective)? The way I see it, I have EVERYTHING else in place for high SERPS ranking but this darn shop (with all the duplicate content) could serious hinder my chances in the searches.

Your thoughts / advice would be most welcome

Cheers,
Martin
#content #duplicate #killing
  • Profile picture of the author L41db4ck
    That shouldn't be a problem. It's when it's duplicated on your site.
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    • Profile picture of the author Martin N Smith
      ok......any reason why you think not?

      Cheers,
      Martin
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  • Profile picture of the author Thomas De
    You need unique content around. Is there any possibility to add your own content in the shop software?
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    • Profile picture of the author Martin N Smith
      Originally Posted by Thomas De View Post

      You need unique content around. Is there any possibility to add your own content in the shop software?
      No mate - apparently if we do that, it'll change ALL the (hundreds of) white label shops, not just ours.
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  • Profile picture of the author jazbo
    Sounds a bit bizarre. Do you actually have the store on your own server? If so just dump php includes in it to your own content, that cannot be pushed around the network.
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    • Profile picture of the author Therlos
      Be sure that the shop won't hurt your content pages. There is no duplicated conten penalty for a whole domain, the only penalty is that the duplicated content itself ranks more difficult, but thats it. You'll just get a penalty if you got the same content many times on one domain, means if you posted the same article twice on your blog.
      Additionally is your shop on the domain shop.yourdomain.com. This is a subdomain and in the eyes of a search engine a totally different domian. So even if google penalised your shop, it wouldn't hurt your blog rankings.


      Daniel
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