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Hey guys say I made a page on my website called "best dogs" and it has content about best dogs. After a week or two I decide to use that same page but use it as a category description and have posts about best dogs and I deleted the original page about best dogs.

Would that be duplicate content or will google see I deleted my page and made a category with the same content about it?

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  • No it's not duplicate since there's only one copy of the content.

    Although won't be a big deal since the content was only online for a couple of weeks, generally speaking when moving URLs (what you did from the sound of things) you'd setup a 301 redirect of the deleted URL to the new category URL.

    In the unlikely event another site scraped your content in the week or two it was on the old URL, the new URL should be considered original source: though the concept of original source is a sticky one, so much conflicting data on if/how Google determines the original source of content.

    David
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    • Didn't know about redirecting the old URL to the new one thought I couldn't do it because I just deleted it.

      What's interesting though that page I had ranked was page 5 in google, but the same page as a category now isn't showing up in the top 500. That's why I thougtht possible duplicate content.
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  • If it's the site in your sig it's code is f##ked up.

    Go to your home page in Firefox and view page source and note how there are large blocks of red text, that's broken HTML code.

    You have double title tags and meta tags etc... looks like your head areas been duplicated.

    David
  • No, Google is not going to consider it as a duplicate content. As, you have deleted the previous version of the content and once the old version will be removed from Google's cache automatically the content available on the new page will be fresh. I am hoping that you have completely deleted your old page.
  • If you find your old pages then you will redirect on new page, this one not count Duplicate content.
  • If there is only 1 page containing the content, it's not duplicate. As other members have mention, if both pages were indexed, but only one remains, google will need to do another site index for the newer page to rank.
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    Duplicate content ..

    Hey guys say I made a page on my website called "best dogs" and it has content about best dogs. After a week or two I decide to use that same page but use it as a category description and have posts about best dogs and I deleted the original page about best dogs. Would that be duplicate content or will google see I deleted my page and made a category with the same content about it?