I was looking at my site (ne-design [dot] net) and trying to figure out if I should move shipping information to a single page. The same duplicate text now shows up on multiple pages, this can not be good right? Are duplicate blocks of text that appear on multiple pages hurting me by a few points in Google algorithms? I have no problem making a page dedicated to shipping questions then adding a link to it, good idea?
Another question is does Google respect blockquotes? If I add a blockqoute to the duplicate text can I leave it on each page? How about expanding upon this idea, it really could help if people had ways to disallow duplicate blocks of text, having the shipping information on each page helps to comfort people enough to make a sale in come cases.
Am I making sense? What is the best way to fix this potential issue?
> I was looking at my site (ne-design [dot] net) and trying to figure > out if I should move shipping information to a single page. The same > duplicate text now shows up on multiple pages, this can not be good > right? Are duplicate blocks of text that appear on multiple pages > hurting me by a few points in Google algorithms? I have no problem > making a page dedicated to shipping questions then adding a link to > it, good idea?
> Another question is does Google respect blockquotes? If I add a > blockqoute to the duplicate text can I leave it on each page? How > about expanding upon this idea, it really could help if people had > ways to disallow duplicate blocks of text, having the shipping > information on each page helps to comfort people enough to make a sale > in come cases.
> Am I making sense? What is the best way to fix this potential issue?
No idea if robots use it for this suggested meaning. Might.
You could use javascript to add such text if you are worried it will be seen as duplicate - then none of it will get indexed and that's that.
But I wouldn't worry. Like footers, menus, slogans this is content that is common to many pages and robots don't bother with it. They may index words from it in one occurrence of that content and not for all pages where it shows up exactly the same way.
I assume in any case you are not interested in your shipping information being indexed unless it has some very important and desirable feature that people may actually search for - can't think what that might be though. This is kind of likethe Terms and Conditions page, Disclaimer or other similar pages. Not much use having them indexed.
It's been said duplicate content on your own site only becomes an issue if the content that's duplicated far outweighs the original content on a page. And in the end all that can happen is that pages which are mostly duplicate content just get ignored from indexing - or rather become supplemental - except now we no longer see the supplemental tag.
> I was looking at my site (ne-design [dot] net) and trying to figure > out if I should move shipping information to a single page. The same > duplicate text now shows up on multiple pages, this can not be good > right? Are duplicate blocks of text that appear on multiple pages > hurting me by a few points in Google algorithms? I have no problem > making a page dedicated to shipping questions then adding a link to > it, good idea?
> Another question is does Google respect blockquotes? If I add a > blockqoute to the duplicate text can I leave it on each page? How > about expanding upon this idea, it really could help if people had > ways to disallow duplicate blocks of text, having the shipping > information on each page helps to comfort people enough to make a sale > in come cases.
> Am I making sense? What is the best way to fix this potential issue?
I would try it at the frist opportunity. Nothing like live testing soemthign :) I don't think it can harm anyhting, but it might also not do anyhting sepcial.
> I was looking at my site (ne-design [dot] net) and trying to figure > out if I should move shipping information to a single page. The same > duplicate text now shows up on multiple pages, this can not be good > right? Are duplicate blocks of text that appear on multiple pages > hurting me by a few points in Google algorithms? I have no problem > making a page dedicated to shipping questions then adding a link to > it, good idea?
> Another question is does Google respect blockquotes? If I add a > blockqoute to the duplicate text can I leave it on each page? How > about expanding upon this idea, it really could help if people had > ways to disallow duplicate blocks of text, having the shipping > information on each page helps to comfort people enough to make a sale > in come cases.
> Am I making sense? What is the best way to fix this potential issue?
Omitting is not the same thing as not including at all. It's kind of just condensed into one entry and can be expanded to show all occurrences. So it's not bad. And the condensing concerns the results for that query, not to say in general all thsoe pages wil be codensed into one - uless all they are about is shippping.
> BUT this doesn't mean having duplicate blocks of text on multiple > pages is good right?
> Solution? Thanks!
> On Sep 24, 9:45 am, Admin Aaron wrote:
> > I was looking at my site (ne-design [dot] net) and trying to figure > > out if I should move shipping information to a single page. The same > > duplicate text now shows up on multiple pages, this can not be good > > right? Are duplicate blocks of text that appear on multiple pages > > hurting me by a few points in Google algorithms? I have no problem > > making a page dedicated to shipping questions then adding a link to > > it, good idea?
> > Another question is does Google respect blockquotes? If I add a > > blockqoute to the duplicate text can I leave it on each page? How > > about expanding upon this idea, it really could help if people had > > ways to disallow duplicate blocks of text, having the shipping > > information on each page helps to comfort people enough to make a sale > > in come cases.
> > Am I making sense? What is the best way to fix this potential issue?- Hide quoted text -
> Omitting is not the same thing as not including at all. It's kind of > just condensed into one entry and can be expanded to show all > occurrences. So it's not bad. > And the condensing concerns the results for that query, not to say in > general all thsoe pages wil be codensed into one - uless all they are > about is shippping.
> > BUT this doesn't mean having duplicate blocks of text on multiple > > pages is good right?
> > Solution? Thanks!
> > On Sep 24, 9:45 am, Admin Aaron wrote:
> > > I was looking at my site (ne-design [dot] net) and trying to figure > > > out if I should move shipping information to a single page. The same > > > duplicate text now shows up on multiple pages, this can not be good > > > right? Are duplicate blocks of text that appear on multiple pages > > > hurting me by a few points in Google algorithms? I have no problem > > > making a page dedicated to shipping questions then adding a link to > > > it, good idea?
> > > Another question is does Google respect blockquotes? If I add a > > > blockqoute to the duplicate text can I leave it on each page? How > > > about expanding upon this idea, it really could help if people had > > > ways to disallow duplicate blocks of text, having the shipping > > > information on each page helps to comfort people enough to make a sale > > > in come cases.
> > > Am I making sense? What is the best way to fix this potential issue?- Hide quoted text -
A further option if you are worried over dupe content with block script is to create a Jpeg or Gif with the block text layered into it. The bots see an image rather than text although this option can be limited by size as optimizing images can sometimes make the text pixilated, if there is a lot of it.
Thanks silverstall... that is a thought though I really hate the idea of using images to replace text (I did this with a few "free shipping" images, wouldn't want to have "free" used 20 times on the site now would I?) I am thinking the better idea is to make a new page or add the information to my FAQ then hotlink to "shipping" (using a nofollow). The alternative would be to make a single page for shipping info., leave the shipping text information on the index/then disallow the page in robots.txt? =P
Webado - You are great at finding messy code, will make my sitemap and contact pages "posts" so they end in .html then 301 over to them from the old pages to make a 100% consistant "permalink structure", hoorah! =P
Having a site that has no broken links, validates and has a consistant permalink structure may not help it to rank for stuff but surely it allows one to present content to Google in an easy to follow way, there will no longer be any wondering if Google is getting it right! The new thought will be, "well I am doing all I can so forget about worrying about Google"!
> A further option if you are worried over dupe content with block > script is to create a Jpeg or Gif with the block text layered into it. > The bots see an image rather than text although this option can be > limited by size as optimizing images can sometimes make the text > pixilated, if there is a lot of it.
