How to avoid duplicate content?

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Hi Everyone,

I'm working on the development of a new website and I would like to have some opinions on how to avoid duplicate content.

Duplicate content can be an issue, because:
- The website lists several products in several pages that can be sorted by type, price, colour, material, etc.
- The website also has an internal search engine

My recommendations would be:
- create a "view all" page for each product category, and in every variation generated by the filters apply rel="canonical" to that page
- add a "NOINDEX, FOLLOW" tag to each of the pages generated by internal searches

In your opinion, are these procedures correct?

Now, supposing the filters and the searches only add "#filter" and "#search" to the original URLs. Would the duplicate content still be a problem?

Any help on this would be very much appreciated.


Thank you,
Ana Lucia
#avoid #content #duplicate
  • Profile picture of the author promo87
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    Originally Posted by Ana Lucia View Post

    Hi Everyone,

    I'm working on the development of a new website and I would like to have some opinions on how to avoid duplicate content.

    Duplicate content can be an issue, because:
    - The website lists several products in several pages that can be sorted by type, price, colour, material, etc.
    - The website also has an internal search engine

    My recommendations would be:
    - create a "view all" page for each product category, and in every variation generated by the filters apply rel="canonical" to that page
    - add a "NOINDEX, FOLLOW" tag to each of the pages generated by internal searches

    In your opinion, are these procedures correct?

    Now, supposing the filters and the searches only add "#filter" and "#search" to the original URLs. Would the duplicate content still be a problem?

    Any help on this would be very much appreciated.


    Thank you,
    Ana Lucia

    Well, what you can do is before making any post or content live over the web, just take a part of the content randomly put it under the quotes and search it over the Google. If anything matches it will be shown and you can find easily find out that the content needs to be replaced. And one more thing based on my experience if you are writing the content yourself by taking help from a reference then its never going to get duplicate, I don't think you even have to search it over the ... or you have to use the copyscape or... content only gets duplicated once you have started writing the article without understanding i.e also called copying and after a while you search for the synonyms !
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    • Profile picture of the author Ana Lucia
      Originally Posted by promo87 View Post

      Well, what you can do is before making any post or content live over the web, just take a part of the content randomly put it under the quotes and search it over the Google. If anything matches it will be shown and you can find easily find out that the content needs to be replaced. And one more thing based on my experience if you are writing the content yourself by taking help from a reference then its never going to get duplicate, I don't think you even have to search it over the ... or you have to use the copyscape or... content only gets duplicated once you have started writing the article without understanding i.e also called copying and after a while you search for the synonyms !

      The duplicate content can be a problem because of the multiple product pages (very similar to each other) generated by the filters and the internal search.

      Your answer focus a totally different matter...
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  • Profile picture of the author maeljackson
    you have to check the content before posting and it should be unique.
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  • Profile picture of the author Clint Butler
    Originally Posted by Ana Lucia View Post


    My recommendations would be:
    - create a "view all" page for each product category, and in every variation generated by the filters apply rel="canonical" to that page
    - add a "NOINDEX, FOLLOW" tag to each of the pages generated by internal searches
    Assuming by how you wrote your question that your doing SEO for an ecommerce site then your recommendations are right on the money.
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  • Profile picture of the author keithb89
    Multiple sales pages shouldn't be a problem since all retailers must do this. Just so you know, this situation really isn't considered "duplicate content". Duplicate content is when you copy directly from another URL. That could be why people aren't giving you the answer you're looking for.
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    • Profile picture of the author Clint Butler
      Originally Posted by keithb89 View Post

      Multiple sales pages shouldn't be a problem since all retailers must do this. Just so you know, this situation really isn't considered "duplicate content". Duplicate content is when you copy directly from another URL. That could be why people aren't giving you the answer you're looking for.
      Incorrect...

      JCPenny is a prime example of how an e-commerce site can create duplicate content. One product page showing up under different url's on a site is exactly why the duplicate content penalty was developed. They were able to rank tons of pages on their site by the nature of their website structure at the time for multiple keywords while serving up the exact same content.

      WordPress also does this on its own out of the box. With your Tag, Category, archives, author, and date pages all serving up the same content that your blog page does. E-Commerce platforms do the same thing.

      She's right to follow her recommendations.
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      • Profile picture of the author keithb89
        Originally Posted by Clint Butler View Post

        Incorrect...

        JCPenny is a prime example of how an e-commerce site can create duplicate content. One product page showing up under different url's on a site is exactly why the duplicate content penalty was developed. They were able to rank tons of pages on their site by the nature of their website structure at the time for multiple keywords while serving up the exact same content.
        JCPenny is a horrible example. They're a major international brand that will rank high because Google wants you to find them. So the 'rules' of SEO don't really apply in this case. You think JCPenny is worried about backlinks or putting keywords in blog posts?
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  • Profile picture of the author Roy Jones
    Before submitting your content you must check your content that whether itv is unique or duplicate by using copyscape tool which is the best tool to check duplicate content.
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  • Profile picture of the author guitarizma
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    Originally Posted by Ana Lucia View Post

    Hi Everyone,

    I'm working on the development of a new website and I would like to have some opinions on how to avoid duplicate content.

    Duplicate content can be an issue, because:
    - The website lists several products in several pages that can be sorted by type, price, colour, material, etc.
    - The website also has an internal search engine

    My recommendations would be:
    - create a "view all" page for each product category, and in every variation generated by the filters apply rel="canonical" to that page
    - add a "NOINDEX, FOLLOW" tag to each of the pages generated by internal searches

    In your opinion, are these procedures correct?

    Now, supposing the filters and the searches only add "#filter" and "#search" to the original URLs. Would the duplicate content still be a problem?

    Any help on this would be very much appreciated.


    Thank you,
    Ana Lucia
    Product descriptions and names won't be considered duplicate content. Don't worry about that.
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnBrower
    The best way to avoid duplicate content is to use hand written content. Hand written contents are always unique as every writer have their own thoughts about a particular topic.
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    • Profile picture of the author basheernaik
      If you have an E-commerce based website you should use Canonical tags.
      A serious website owner should focus on quality content. Even rewriting article has a bad effect.
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  • Profile picture of the author emeka08
    copyscape is there to help you out
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  • Profile picture of the author shashikant1010
    when you publish a new article first check on copyscape and other plagirsam tool if any match found then just rewrite it. its help you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Laubster
    Wow, so much bad information here. Duplicate content means the content appears on two domains. Many e-commerce stores suffer from this. What you want to do is reduce how much duplicate content gets indexed. Which means blocking and even manually removing thin pages, category pages, search result pages, all of that stuff. And even using Canonical to point all of them to the primary product page (the main one without any variations or the most popular one, etc).
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  • Duplicate content is really bad for the any type of business. If you want to avoid duplicacy in content then try to write your content yourself. And take the help from particular reference.
    As you know lots of tool are available in the market to write content. But there is a little chance of duplicacy of content.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alphaxiom
    Through URL canonical URL you will prevent duplicate content.
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