Tag Archives: duplicate content

How a Blogroll Can Still Kill Your PageRank

By Andy Beard | Published: August 8, 2010

Navigational elements on a blog or any website are an important feature, but you should be careful not to take things to extremes which can hurt the progress of your site, both from a SEO perspective and for website conversion.

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Google Broke My Christmas * (Supplemental Result Query Changes)

By Andy Beard | Published: December 20, 2007

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

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Do Google Hate Paid Links, Duplicate Content and Cruft?

By Andy Beard | Published: May 2, 2007

Eric Enge Interviews Adam Lasnik about paid links, duplicate content and crufty pages (lots of code, little content)

Takeaways

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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Are Yahoo Guilty of Unethical Plagiarism With Syndicated Content?

By Andy Beard | Published: March 30, 2007

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.

Major Websites and Press Agencies Seriously Don't Give a Damn About Conventions

I am not a lawyer, this post is personal opinion. Please treat any legal information as for entertainment purposes only

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

Posted in news | Also tagged afp , attribution , ethics , hoax , links , museum of hoaxes , news , press , rss , syndication , yahoo | Comments closed

In Depth: Google BlogSearch | Ranking Blog Documents Patent

By Andy Beard | Published: March 23, 2007

Using Internal tags with Ultimate Tag Warrior

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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Articles Are Seeds of Knowledge – A Biblical Look at Duplicate Content

By Andy Beard | Published: January 28, 2007

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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Posted in marketing | Also tagged Article Distribution , article marketing , Article Syndication , bible , gideons , top10 | Comments closed

Toolbar Pagerank | Ball Linking

By Andy Beard | Published: January 25, 2007

Google have finally updated their toolbar pagerank for this site, not just on the front page, but also a lot of the deeper pages. Not all of them – some of those devoid of pagerank should probably have some, others probably shouldn’t especially moved content that hasn’t been given enough love.

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Duplicate Content

By Andy Beard | Published: December 7, 2006

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

International Article Syndication

By Andy Beard | Published: November 25, 2006

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.

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UTW – Tagging SEO Tricks (pt 2)

By Andy Beard | Published: November 25, 2006

This is not a technical trick, but something that many people who confuse categories and tagging really need to get a grasp of.
It is also my belief that this is very much a white-hat strategy, but as with all forms of search engine marketing, it can be abused.

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