Does the duplication of web content offend Google in any way?
One of my clients has two sites that run off the same database, sharing 60% of the content between them. The problem is this is a duplication of content and it looks as if Google has interpreted this as an offence of some kind. Why else wouldn’t the webots have re-indexed these certain pages in 6 months.
The best article on the subject is: “Deftly dealing with duplicate content“. But the advice doesn’t exactly cover this situation.
My first attempt at resolving the issue is to remove the site that wasn’t supposed to be indexed anyway, using a robots.txt file. Perhaps this will work and regain some favour with the webots. Otherwise we have to think again.
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That’s really tricky! Google probably know lots of people doing the same thing. I guess that Google wants to prevent users may search the same contents or same sites. well, need to find a good way. thanks for your sharing, good suggestion.