Tag Archives: Duplicate

Google’s John Mueller recently answered a question of whether there’s a percentage threshold of content duplication that Google uses to identify and filter out duplicate content. What Percentage Equals Duplicate Content? The conversation actually started on Facebook when Duane Forrester (@DuaneForrester) asked if anyone knew if any search engine has published a percentage of content overlap at which content is considered duplicate. Bill Hartzer (bhartzer) turned to Twitter to ask John… Source link

Google’s John Mueller clarifies a misconception about duplicate content, saying it’s not a negative search ranking factor. Having the same content repeated across multiple pages is not something that would cause a site to rank lower in search results. Mueller says it’s normal for sites to have a certain amount of duplicate content. Google’s algorithms are built to handle it. He touched on this topic last week, but it’s brought up again during this week’s Google Search Central SEO… Source link

Google’s John Mueller says identical content published in different formats, such as a video and a blog post, is not considered duplicate content. Site owners can safely repurpose a video as an article, for example, without concern about Google seeing the two pieces of content as the same. It’s even possible that duplicate content isn’t as great of a issue as site owners and SEOs make it out to be, Mueller explains. This topic came up during the Google Search Central office hours stream… Source link