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Doing this considers as a Duplicate Content in front of Google?

by gillw254
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HI,

I would like to know one thing...

In my website, I just keep only affiliate products (say amazon or cj etc..), I do not have my own products...


My question is:
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I have some categroeis and sub-categores (say Dresses --> Party )

Under 'Party' sub-category, I just keep only Party related products... BUT in case of under 'Dresses' Main--Category, it includes everything (all Mixed).. so some of the products that are present in 'Party' category will definitely be there in 'Dresses' category as well...


For eg:

www.example.com/Dresses/prod1 (Here 'Dresses' is a Main-Category that points to product 'Prod1' )
www.example.com/Party/prod1 (Here 'Party' is a Sub-Category that points to product 'Prod1' )

So, here BOTH links same Product 'prod1' in which it BOTH the pages has same content in it, so I feel it definitely a Duplicate Content only!
So whats the solution for it...?




Waiting for your replies...
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  • Profile picture of the author aarthielumalai
    I don't think it'll be considered as duplicate content. I'm not sure, but take amazon.com for example. Their site is laid out as you described, and they don't seem to be having any problems.
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    • Profile picture of the author gillw254
      Originally Posted by aarthielumalai View Post

      I don't think it'll be considered as duplicate content. I'm not sure, but take amazon.com for example. Their site is laid out as you described, and they don't seem to be having any problems.
      I guess they use something like <link canonical> tag , BUT iam not sure whether I should use it or not...
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  • Profile picture of the author tomm
    I wouldn't worry about it

    but the fact that your site is 100% affiliate products is what you should worry about if you rely on Google traffic
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    • Profile picture of the author gillw254
      Originally Posted by tomm View Post


      but the fact that your site is 100% affiliate products is what you should worry about if you rely on Google traffic

      I didnt get your point... My site is an Ecommerce site..
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  • Profile picture of the author gillw254
    so, anyone can clarify mine...? I still have a doubt whether its still called a Duplicate or not.. If YES, how to avoid it..?
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  • Profile picture of the author Todd Pedersen
    First of all, I agree with Tomm that you should include some informative articles to any affiliate site. In the 25% of total posts range at least.

    As far as the duplicate content is concerned, it is on the edge in my opinion. While you always want to silo your content, in the example given in the OP the two different legs of the silo would cross.

    I would not be too worried about it if it is only doe once or twice for say a 50-75 page site. However, if one did this for every post that could be a different story.

    Anyways, I hope I didn't ramble too much and was of some help!

    Best of luck!!
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    • Profile picture of the author gillw254
      Originally Posted by Todd Pedersen View Post

      First of all, I agree with Tomm that you should include some informative articles to any affiliate site. In the 25% of total posts range at least.

      As far as the duplicate content is concerned, it is on the edge in my opinion. While you always want to silo your content, in the example given in the OP the two different legs of the silo would cross.

      I would not be too worried about it if it is only doe once or twice for say a 50-75 page site. However, if one did this for every post that could be a different story.

      Anyways, I hope I didn't ramble too much and was of some help!

      Best of luck!!


      As far as I know Duplicate content means having similar content on more than one page of the same website..

      So, thats what Iam asking about.. I felt that Im seeing similar content in 2 categories, since same product exists in 2 differnt categories...

      So,isnt that callled as a Duplicate Content..?
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  • Profile picture of the author tomm
    That is duplicate content but the way I see it, Google won't penalize your site. But if both these urls

    www.example.com/Dresses/prod1
    www.example.com/Party/prod1

    show the exact same page, then why not using rel=canonical? Just pick one and canonicalize it

    Bad duplicate content is when your site has the same content as some other site

    you can go to any site, like www.example.com/page.php then append something like www.example.com/page.php?id=1 and you'll notice that it will display the same, so you basically created a duplicate content on a remote site, so that's why my guess is that Google won't penalize duplicate content on the same site
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    • Profile picture of the author gillw254
      Originally Posted by tomm View Post

      That is duplicate content but the way I see it, Google won't penalize your site. But if both these urls

      IANA &mdash; Example domains
      IANA &mdash; Example domains

      show the exact same page, then why not using rel=canonical? Just pick one and canonicalize it

      Bad duplicate content is when your site has the same content as some other site

      you can go to any site, like IANA &mdash; Example domains then append something like IANA &mdash; Example domains and you'll notice that it will display the same, so you basically created a duplicate content on a remote site, so that's why my guess is that Google won't penalize duplicate content on the same site

      Google Never Penalize our website, instead it filters out pages.. It choses one from multiple Duplicate pages...

      In case of mine, I have some 100's of products in each category, so how do I correctly use <rel canonical> tag? any idea?
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      • Profile picture of the author tomm
        Originally Posted by gillw254 View Post

        In case of mine, I have some 100's of products in each category, so how do I correctly use <rel canonical> tag? any idea?
        Is it template driven? if so it's just a matter of picking one category for each product to be the main category and make it canonical. It could be complicated or easy, depends on the structure of your site, the person who developed it should know how to do it.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by tomm View Post

      Bad duplicate content is when your site has the same content as some other site
      Well I guess the New York Times, Los Angelos Times, Washington Post, ESPN, etc. are all f$cked then.

      You have this wrong. Bad duplicate content is the same content showing up repeatedly on the same site.
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      • Profile picture of the author gillw254
        Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

        Well I guess the New York Times, Los Angelos Times, Washington Post, ESPN, etc. are all f then.

        You have this wrong. Bad duplicate content is the same content showing up repeatedly on the same site.

        Yes, thats what I said the same thing before...

        Surprisingly, when I add same 'prod1' into category1 (Main) and category2 (Sub), the URL of that product from 2 categories pointing to Main Category only, I mean the links poinitng from the same product is same (not differnt links), so now I felt its NOT any duplicate content..


        BTW, can anyone confirm me if I scrape content of a product will be filtered by google in google search results?
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      • Profile picture of the author tomm
        Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

        Well I guess the New York Times, Los Angelos Times, Washington Post, ESPN, etc. are all f then.

        You have this wrong. Bad duplicate content is the same content showing up repeatedly on the same site.
        here Matt Cutts talks about duplicate content and even tells why NYT is not f*cked

        Matt Cutts Addresses Duplicate Content Issue In New Video | WebProNews

        See the notion of duplicate content is about same content on different sites not on your own site.

        see this thread here where we are responding, the URL is

        www.warriorforum.com/adsense-ppc-seo-discussion-forum/652163-doing-considers-duplicate-content-front-google.html

        now I'm going to create a duplicate content

        www.warriorforum.com/adsense-ppc-seo-discussion-forum/652163-doing-considers-duplicate-content-front-google.html?id=1

        so you think i'm screwing Warrior Forum? It would be too easy

        HTH
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  • Profile picture of the author gillw254
    Does scraping the content of a product will be called as a Duplicate Content..? Assume we have displaying some 50 different products from differnet merchants in our store...
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  • Profile picture of the author think more
    Don't worry about it.It is not duplicated content.
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