While opening a bottle of Pepsi and viewing my google reader, i noticed this blog post. Please read the whole thing before commenting.
Quote: Among SEO practitioners, duplicate content has been a major topic that keeps returning. And advice has typically centered on the need to develop unique content for your website. With Google's Panda release, however, there's a need to redefine how we think about unique content.
Previously, the emphasis had been on ensuring that articles not be copies of other articles. The basic reason for this is that the search engines don't want to have a results page that shows the same result over and over again. For example, a results page that looks like this: See blog post for screenshot. ~Snakeair
Users want to see varying results.
Consider the scenario where a user clicks on the first result, looks at it, and then decides he don't like that result, and then clicks on the second result. Chances are not good that he is going to like that one better, right? If he then clicks on the third result, he will likely scream. The search engines go to great lengths to.... Cotinued at: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2074622/Redefining-Unique-Content
I'd say read the blog comments on this story but there is only 1 comment at this time. Feel
Quote: Among SEO practitioners, duplicate content has been a major topic that keeps returning. And advice has typically centered on the need to develop unique content for your website. With Google's Panda release, however, there's a need to redefine how we think about unique content.
Previously, the emphasis had been on ensuring that articles not be copies of other articles. The basic reason for this is that the search engines don't want to have a results page that shows the same result over and over again. For example, a results page that looks like this: See blog post for screenshot. ~Snakeair
Users want to see varying results.
Consider the scenario where a user clicks on the first result, looks at it, and then decides he don't like that result, and then clicks on the second result. Chances are not good that he is going to like that one better, right? If he then clicks on the third result, he will likely scream. The search engines go to great lengths to.... Cotinued at: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2074622/Redefining-Unique-Content
I'd say read the blog comments on this story but there is only 1 comment at this time. Feel