Duplicate Content and Multiple sites Issues - From Google Staff

**thebookmarker** · 1 October, 2009, 09:29 AM

If you have issues with duplicate contents then you should watch this vid.

**TopDogger** · 1 October, 2009, 12:18 PM

The guy does raise some interesting scenarios in this video. It is worth watching.

I still find it interesting that Google continues to stress that duplicate content does not result in a penalty; they just filter out the pages with duplicate content. While technically this is correct (it's a filter, not a penalty), it still smells like a penalty for the duplicate content pages.

I also find it interesting that Google is starting to use several people other than Matt Cutts in their videos. Perhaps they are looking for the next Matt Cutts protege.

**Snak3** · 3 October, 2009, 06:29 AM

Long yet informative vid. Thanks for the share.

Did he say 'fucking bunnies' at 1:42???

LOL

**Keldorn** · 12 October, 2009, 10:18 AM

Yeah thanks for posting this. Learned very much about canonical link in the <head> and finnaly understand what its about as he explains about 7 minutes into the video. Canonical link is really useful when your dealing with mod_rewrite in .htaccess where you end up having two URLs to your page, (One being from the mod_rewrite and the other from the normal query url) As an added bonus if your on a windows server you also the special privilege of having case-insensitivity too to allow endless possibilities of urls to your page.

**sachin410** · 12 October, 2009, 11:22 AM

can someone briefly explain what this guy is saying?

with my slow connection, it will take too long for me to download this video completely.

**Local SEO** · 14 October, 2009, 15:18 PM

Originally Posted by TopDogger

The guy does raise some interesting scenarios in this video. It is worth watching.

I still find it interesting that Google continues to stress that duplicate content does not result in a penalty; they just filter out the pages with duplicate content. While technically this is correct (it's a filter, not a penalty), it still smells like a penalty for the duplicate content pages.

I also find it interesting that Google is starting to use several people other than Matt Cutts in their videos. Perhaps they are looking for the next Matt Cutts protege.

I think of this as a penalty, you don't know what page will be filtered.

**bogart** · 19 October, 2009, 08:09 AM

Originally Posted by Local SEO

I think of this as a penalty, you don't know what page will be filtered.

It's not a penalty. Not all duplicate content gets filtered out. But yeah it can be a problem when other sites are copying your content or you can't control which page gets indexed.