Duplicate Content issues in SEO

We all know that when we are trying to rank for a specific keyword for our website, duplicate content can be a major pitfall in our efforts. One of the biggest reasons behind this is the way search engines are always after fresh content that is fairly new to offer their searchers. Did you never wonder why search engines don’t normally pay heed to something already crawled before? As well as this, an individual searcher would find no benefit in having lots of content the same displayed to him? None is the only answer you can give to that.

What ways can you find out if content is duplicated or not? After all, you want to stay onside with the major search engines and now that you know duplicate content issues are frowned upon you don’t really want to be caught out. here’s how to do this in Google.

First, search Google for your site URL. Doing this will allow you to see all your sites pages that have been indexed by Google. Then proceed by clicking on each one of the links that comes up in this search. If this message appears: “to see the most relevant results we have omitted entries that are similar” it means there are pages that have been omitted because Google classes them as duplicates.

After this you should actually click on the link that asks you to repeat the search but with the omitted results included. You will then see these omitted pages and will be able to fix them in whatever way you see fit in order to rectify things.

Although it is extremely difficult to have a 100% duplicate free website, you can help yourself by avoiding publishing reprinted things like articles from directories.

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