Eric Enge Interviews Adam Lasnik about paid links, duplicate content and crufty pages (lots of code, little content)
I am sorry to say not a lot, it reinforces Google’s position not to really say a lot, though apparently there is no real penalty for duplicate content, and not to worry about how pagerank flows in your site.
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Bloggers often complain that another blogger has stolen their content (plagiarism) or reworked their ideas without giving credit, and on the internet among bloggers, credit isn't just mentioning their names but providing a link, preferably to the original article.
Vipul Arora wrote a story today entitled Yahoo plagiarizes content - does not give credit!!
But was it plagiarism?
Lets go into detail and see what happens, and how this all
For a long time my blogs have performed amazingly well with Google Blog Search. I always appear in the relevant results quickly, and the results I obtain have some reasonable longevity, even when I am not the original source of a story.
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It is Sunday although I am not a very religious person, thus I was, horror of horrors, outside shovelling snow around. It was drifting, and if I hadn’t done anything with it, it might have blocked the driveway for my wife Monday morning.
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Lee Odden has a great overview on duplicate content issues.
He is blogging various sessions from the Chicago Search Engine Strategies conference.
Here are the bullet points from just one of the speakers on the session (Shari Thurow), and I bolded one of them
I use Google Alerts to track a lot of my article syndication, and sometimes it comes up with some absolute diamonds of ways content can be presented to an international audience.
Google Broke My Christmas * (Supplemental Result Query Changes)
If you read the Google blog or the coverage on Search Engine Land, you might be rejoicing that supplemental results are no more
It has been described as lipstick on a pig and others have just offered tips on site indexing.
What Happened To My /* Search Query?
Before this change, one of the tools still available to SEO practitioners to give an indication of the depth of site indexing was to add /* to the end on a site: search query.
Thus you would use
site:andybeard.eu/ - this would return the total pages supposedly indexed site:andybeard.eu/* - this would return the