{"id":5613,"date":"2017-07-27T19:09:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T13:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/?p=5613"},"modified":"2023-06-27T13:35:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T08:05:07","slug":"how-to-fight-duplicate-content-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/how-to-fight-duplicate-content-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Fight Duplicate Content Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Banner_Image_28.png?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15199\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Banner_Image_28.png?resize=640%2C356&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Banner_Image_28.png?w=882&amp;ssl=1 882w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Banner_Image_28.png?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Banner_Image_28.png?resize=768%2C428&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First of all, duplicate content is not bad per se. However, it will diminish your SEO efforts after you create hundreds of pages with similar content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In other words, Google doesn\u2019t have a duplicate content penalty, but it has to determine which page is the \u201coriginal\u201d one and thus lower the value or completely ignore the existence of the duplicated page.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<h4><b>It lowers the rank position in the SERPs.\u00a0<\/b><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Search engines are powerful machines, and only the most relevant content\u00a0 appears in the first few pages of the SERPs. If the content on two pages on your website is similar or the same, Google will successfully decipher which has the greater importance. Sadly, this can lead to lower rankings for both pages.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<h4><b>It wastes crawling bandwidth.\u00a0<\/b><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Googlebot crawls your site for information to determine which page is the authentic one. When there\u2019s more than one page with similar content, the chances are Googlebot will crawl the less relevant pages instead of the one with the higher priority.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<h4><b>It can ruin the backlink value.\u00a0<\/b><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s presume you have a \u201cNews\u201d section on your website, and the same news article has two different, but valid URLs. Now, since anyone can choose the backlink they want, they won\u2019t be redistributed evenly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most important, the one with higher authority may get only a few shares, while the one with a lesser authority URL may be shared numerous times. Because backlinks aren\u2019t the only ranking factor, the rankings will probably go down the SERPs. If you\u2019re lucky, they\u2019ll stay in the same spot they were before.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Identifying Duplicate Content Issues<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the most part, duplicate content issues occur without any human factor being involved. Nevertheless, a developer\u2019s interference is needed once the duplicates prevent other pages to rank. Following are the most common reasons you have duplicate content on the website.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<h4><b>URL Parameters<\/b><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The site always uses some kind of URL parameters that can either help you or create more confusion. To Google, uppercase and lowercase URLs are counted as two separate pages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This creates <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@arinfotech\/seo-tips-to-optimize-your-url-structure-50736432729f\">multiple versions<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the same URL, so consider changing them to have only the lowercase URLs because it\u2019s the standard practice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another URL issue can be the session ID parameter. For example, e-commerce owners keep track of the visitors with the help of sessions. A session is a short history that tells them what the user did on the page. It has its special identifier called the session ID.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some websites fail to remove the session ID from the URL. Once there\u2019s a new visitor on the site, one new ID is added to the existing URL name. We\u2019re then left with multiple URLs for the same pages. We can easily fix this by saving the session information into cookies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/new1-18.png?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/new1-18.png?resize=640%2C210&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/new1-18.png?w=604&amp;ssl=1 604w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/new1-18.png?resize=300%2C98&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Source: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><i>http:\/\/www.c-sharpcorner.com\/UploadFile\/225740\/introduction-of-session-in-Asp-Net\/<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The last common URL parameter has to do with transient categories. Most online stores\u2019 URLs change within the page categories. For example, a visitor wants to buy something from a home improvement store. He clicks on home decor &gt; pillows &gt; pillows on sale, and the URL looks like this: www.website.com\/homedecor\/pillows\/sale.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Should he access the same page from the \u201cpillows\u201d section, his URL would look like this: www.website.com\/pillows\/sale if the platform allows the page to be accessed from different categories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A developer can fix these categories within the platform you use.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<h4><b>WWWs and HTTPs<\/b><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When there\u2019s a WWW version of your site, but it is accessible without it as well, duplicate content is present on each page. The same goes with HTTP and HTTPS, although we encounter this issue much rarely.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The solution is to choose which version you want to go with and <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thebarton.org\/redirect-non-www-to-www-htaccess-apache-nginx\/\">redirect the chosen version<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the other.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<h4><b>Printer Friendly Pages<\/b><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you have printer friendly pages on the website, they are practically the same as the regular ones, with different formatting. Google will find those, and again, you\u2019ll have more duplicate content.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Fighting Duplicate Content\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The universal solution for all of the aforementioned issues is often solved with a canonical URL. It is the \u201ccorrect\u201d URL for a certain chunk of content that was previously available on more addresses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tools we can use to determine whether there\u2019s any duplicate content on the website, range from the simple and free ones, to the tools you have to purchase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The easiest method is to copy a piece of content and put it in quotation marks in the search engine. All of the pages that contain the same content will be displayed on the first page of search results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another way to check duplicated content is to run the page\u2019s URL through <\/span><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.copyscape.com\/\">Copyscape<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.screamingfrog.co.uk\/seo-spider\/\">Screaming Frog SEO Spider<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google Webmaster Tools can help, too. When you click on the category Search Appearance &gt; HTML Improvements, it will show you the URLs with the duplicate material.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/new2-15.png?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15201\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/new2-15.png?resize=640%2C441&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/new2-15.png?w=621&amp;ssl=1 621w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/new2-15.png?resize=300%2C207&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/new2-15.png?resize=208%2C143&amp;ssl=1 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><b>To prevent making the same content on multiple pages, it\u2019s important to:<\/b><\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">remove the session ID extension in the URL in the platform settings<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have only lowercase letters in the page URL<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">start using <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/alistapart.com\/article\/goingtoprint\">print style sheets<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> instead of printer friendly pages<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">choose only one version of the protocol (HTTP or HTTPS) or www as the beginning of the URL name<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">be consistent when making new content and avoid having the same page sections across multiple pages<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">use identical URLs for the same pages on internal links<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">not block duplicate content pages from indexing, since Google can detect that you want to hide something from it<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">link back to the canonical version of the page; make sure the anchor text sounds natural<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><b>Conclusion<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Duplicate content issues can hurt your SEO efforts in the long run. Even though Google claims it doesn\u2019t penalise websites that have the same content on multiple pages, it can be bad for your ranking and ruin the backlink value.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Identifying the bigger problems takes a few minutes and can be done with the help of the simplest tools. After you realise which duplicate issues you\u2019re having the most trouble with, it\u2019s time to start combating them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, duplicate content is not bad per se. However, it will diminish your SEO efforts after you create hundreds of pages with similar content. 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