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Old 16-06-2008, 05:14 PM
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Hi everyone,

Just wanted to get some opinions on duplicate content. Matt Cutts seems to think its not a huge issue, but many SEO experts say its a huge issue.

My question is more in relation to what qualifies as duplicate and what are the worst forms of duplication. As I think some forms are just plain picky. I also believe that sometimes its best not to get too bogged down in this stuff and just focus on your content more than anything else.

Ok lets start:

1.) Mirror Domains both return HTTP 200 OK - Has anyone noticed significant benefits from using a 301 on 1 of these domain names?

2.) 2 URL's / Same Content - Two identical pages on the website both accessible through human friendly url's.

EG: www. mysite .com /my-example-url
EG: www. mysite .com /my-example-url-2

How bad is this?

3.) Domain concatenation

EG: mydomain .com
EG: www. mydomain .com

4.) URL Concatenation

EG: www. mydomain .com
EG: www. mydomain .com /default.aspx
EG: www. mydomain .com/

EG: www. mydomain .com /my-cool-article
EG: www. mydomain .com /my-cool-article/ (note trailing slash!)

I would be really interested in hearing your feedback and experience with these forms of duplication. Also if you could rate how critical each of the 4 points I mentioned (in your opinion) are, I'd really appreciate it.
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3 and 4 aren't much of an issue anymore. The trailing slash thing is something that bugs me a bit when I see it omitted. A trailing slash should be added to all URLs that follow a directory structure. I notice it missing from a lot of apps developed on RoR such as Twitter and whatever else is made on Rails.

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Just wanted to get some opinions on duplicate content. Matt Cutts seems to think its not a huge issue, but many SEO experts say its a huge issue.
Thing is too that Matt might be talking about it from the user point of view rather than from the webmaster's POV.
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We've got multiple domains pointing at the same website without any 301s or 302s.
The only downside is that you can find certain results spread across multiple domains ie. under .com , under .eu etc.,
When we finally relaunch with the new site design in the next couple of weeks we'll 301 all the extra domains to the main .com
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