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A Duplicate Content Problem You May Not Know You Have
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Rebecca Appleton (166 Posts)
Rebecca is the managing director of search engine optimization agency Dakota Digital a full-service agency offering SEO, online PR, web copywriting, media relationship management, and social media strategy. Rebecca works directly with each client to increase online visibility, brand profile, and search engine rankings. She has headed a number of international campaigns for large brands.
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Nice overview Rebecca! Another avenue you could take would be to ensure that your print pages have a rel=”canonical pointing back to the non-print version of the page.
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Interesting article. It’s got me thinking of my own websites and why I’m not ranking for one of them. I use testimonials on the bottom of my sites. And I include all of them on each site. You think something as simple as that could be the reason why Google is not giving me love? Is it better to put different ones on different sites?
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Personally, I like setting up a separate CSS to kick in when the media is print rather than screen. It strips out much of the formatting, navigation and images, leaving you with a very clean, easily printed page, and there’s no duplicate content issue, because it’s the same page at the same URL. It just looks different.
Lawks!
That is the exact opposite of what I would recommend.
Yes, the dup-content problem exists, but don’t try to block Google’s access to the pages as you are then missing a HUGE internal linking boost.
At most, put a noindex meta tag in the printer friendly page, but ensure that Google (etc) finds the page and follows links to/from it.
Having created the pages, make sure the headline is a link back to the primary page and scatter a few suitable in-text links to other pages on your site.
With good CSS, these links wont show up when printed, but will substantially boost your internal link juice.
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Hi Rebecca! Are you sure that having 2 different domains with exactly the same pages is a duplicate content issue? (for example a .co.uk site for a UK market and .com site for a US market, neither of which have any discernible difference). I’ve read at SEOmoz that it wasn’t a problem now…
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