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How is duplicate content made "for users"? Why would I want to find exactly the same prose in multiple places?
by eevee 12y ago
How is duplicate content made "for users"? Why would I want to find exactly the same prose in multiple places?
- ForHackernews 12y agoMaybe you run a store where you sell Widget and Deluxe Widget. The only difference is Deluxe Widget has a higher max RPM, but the operating instructions for Widget and Deluxe Widget are identical. As a consumer, if I came to the website looking for instructions on how to use my [Deluxe] Widget, I would reasonably expect to find the same operating guide on both product pages.
- eevee 12y agoMaybe you should collapse these admittedly identical items into variations of the same product, which will reduce the useless duplicated clutter I'd experience when searching your catalogue.
- Myrth 12y ago* Paginated content with different filters or sorting? Almost the same content on multiple pages * Product with a category name in url, or without, or under multiple categories Both are very useful for humans, but have to be massaged with canonical urls to please Google machines
- eevee 12y agoI'm reasonably sure Google is familiar with pagination and filtering, seeing as that's pretty much the entire thing their own website does. I don't see how the same product under a variety of URLs, one for each category it's in, is at all useful to me as a human. It actually rather annoys me when the same page has a whole bunch of URLs: I can't tell which is the "real" one, my address bar frecency gets messed up, visited links don't work correctly, etc.
- scrollaway 12y agohttps://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en