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Does this (my) website risk duplicate content?

by Discreetmarketer
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Hi,

I've built a small test site with a paid wordpress theme. I don't expect too much of it as far as design is concerned.

My concern is duplicate content : since the website has 2 boxes with the same text repeated in every page, is it likely to result in duplicate content?

Here is the website : w w w. ***********.com

Every indexed page shows the first box' text in google results, which looks annoying to me. (site:w w w.************* .com

(sorry, I'm too "young" to post links)

Do you guys have any thoughts please?

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author PhilipSEO
    Blog duplicate content is not as big a deal any more as it used to be, but it is certainly worthwhile, and is considered a "best practice," to perform URL Canonicalization on your site. And that should take care of that one!
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      I shouldn't have, but I took a look.

      I think he's talking more about some type of header and side bar,
      with content disguised as ads.

      Those are common. A lot of big sites use them. I use them. Makes
      updating easy. That's not duplicate content. I should say the header
      and side bar, not the ad "content" itself. But then if one puts adsense
      in the same spots, (like most of us) I suppose it's similar. But his is a long
      game rental ad. His pages seem to be canonical.

      Paul
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      • Profile picture of the author Discreetmarketer
        Thanks for your answers guys.

        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        But his is a long
        game rental ad. His pages seem to be canonical.
        Paul
        So in my case, the long ad could be bad in some way to the site ranking?
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        • Profile picture of the author untouchable_newbness
          okay, I'm a total newb here so im gonna ask a silly question. What is the benefit to having all that content across each of the pages like that? I have little experience with sites like massa's and would like to learn more about this type of structure any info would be greatly appreciated.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brad Callen
    Right, and you have the basic non-www redirect up, varying title tags, and no pages jumping out at me with DC.. better than most sites asking for reviews.
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  • Profile picture of the author Discreetmarketer
    Here is my 2 cents on the subject :

    In my opinion, the perks of building the site this way are :
    - to put an action button right in front of the visitor at the top of every page.
    - to repeat the sales copy of the product in every page to "force" the visitor to see it.

    No rocket science though, I'm currently testing the process.
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    • Profile picture of the author untouchable_newbness
      ah okay cool thanks massa .
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