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Research abstracts penalized for being duplicate content?

by Olorin
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Anyone have any experience with science research abstracts on their website?

We are selling a physical product and will have lots of original content for our site - but on one page we will be compiling a lot of science abstracts related to our product field. What I am wondering is whether that is going to hurt the whole site's seo effort.

Google seems to be punishing whole sites for some pages having lots of redundant copy - and science abstracts are on a number of sites (who will then sell the entire report). We dont want to spin them, we want to list them verbatim but I am concerned that a page with perhaps 100 reference abstracts will be seen by google in a poor light and thus penalize the rest of the site.

Any ideas?
#abstracts #content #duplicate #penalized #research
  • Profile picture of the author Olorin
    annnnnd - the crickets sing - does nobody have a site with medical and scientific research articles on it?
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    What your describing is duplicate content, which isn't a penalty. Google will simply bury the duplicate page/s in Supplemental SERPs.

    Use a canonical tag to tell Google which page is the page you want displayed in Google SERPs.
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    • Profile picture of the author debra
      Research abstracts have a lot of jargon that is hard to read and understand to the average person. I would consider writing an original summary, in laymen terms, of the abstract on my page then offer the original form of the paper in pdf (as a download) and possibly in auto (streaming from the webpage).
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      • Profile picture of the author Olorin
        Originally Posted by debra View Post

        Research abstracts have a lot of jargon that is hard to read and understand to the average person. I would consider writing an original summary, in laymen terms, of the abstract on my page then offer the original form of the paper in pdf (as a download) and possibly in auto (streaming from the webpage).
        Actually, that is a good idea - and its true that many people wont be able to understand what they are actually saying. Its important for our professionals who we are looking to pickup as offline affiliates though.

        Yukon - I will look into the canonical tabs - for anyone else who didn't know how to do this before (like me) here is good old Matt to tell us how About rel="canonical" - Webmaster Tools Help
        But that said - these abstracts are coming from elsewhere, who knows which is the original source, since there are a number of sites selling the articles and thus list the abstracts.

        Im mainly worried about this because of the discussion on seomoz - granted, that is dealing with a large site with many different topics - and we are looking to be authority in a smaller niche - but I still am concerned with the talk of penalizing the entire site for a few pages of dup content.
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