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  • IM_Learner
    IM_Learner last edited by May 21, 2011, 1:41 AM

    Hi,

    If i use same terms of use and privacy policy content across my websites, does it amounts to duplicate content issues? Does it affect my websites in any manner?

    Regards

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    • AlanBleiweiss
      AlanBleiweiss @IM_Learner last edited by May 21, 2011, 2:56 PM May 21, 2011, 2:56 PM

      Duplicate content is one of many hundreds of factors.  If you have a very well crafted site, highly optimized, and with a very strong inbound link profile, but only a couple pages (ones that are not highly relevant to your primary topical focus) are duplicate, the potential negative impact on your overall rankings will be minimal.

      This is true for most SEO factors.  If any single factor has a flaw, but it's not a flaw that applies to the whole site, that single factor is going to have minimum impact on the overall site.

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      • RyanKent
        RyanKent last edited by May 21, 2011, 9:01 AM May 21, 2011, 8:56 AM

        You can do almost anything you wish on a "noindex" tagged page. You are telling the search engine bot to exclude the page from the search index, so the page should not affect your ranking.

        The reason your site's # of pages is a factor, is your overall site is viewed as a whole. If you have a basic site with 10 pages, and there is a problem with 1 of the pages having duplicate content, then 10% of your site is affected, and this can impact how the search engine views your site. If your site hosted a forums with 10k pages, then that 1 page would represent 0.001 of your site, so the impact would not have any real effect.

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        • IM_Learner
          IM_Learner @IM_Learner last edited by May 21, 2011, 5:44 AM May 21, 2011, 5:44 AM

          Thanks for the helpful reply Alan! Can you please explain this - "If it's only a few pages, sure, duplicate content there could have an impact". How duplicate content issues vary between small and big sites? I was under the impression that number of pages do not have any influence in duplicate content.

          Is it okay to use the same privacy policy and terms of use across different websites as long as i noindex,follow them?

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          • AlanBleiweiss
            AlanBleiweiss @IM_Learner last edited by May 21, 2011, 9:01 AM May 21, 2011, 5:23 AM

            How big is your site?  If it's only a few pages, sure, duplicate content there could have an impact.  But in reality, I expect your site is not primarily made up of keyword phrases that either of those pages would be optimized for, and that you have more than a few pages.  If so, any "negative" aspect would not be severe.

            Having said that, it really is best to just use a robots meta tag set to noindex,follow (my preference instead of blocking completely in the robots.txt file.

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            • IM_Learner
              IM_Learner @RyanKent last edited by May 21, 2011, 4:24 AM May 21, 2011, 4:24 AM

              Thanks for the reply Ryan! But if i don't block it via robots.txt file or noindex tag, will it affect my site negatively? I mean the overall site

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              • RyanKent
                RyanKent last edited by May 21, 2011, 4:19 AM May 21, 2011, 4:19 AM

                I would recommend blocking pages such as privacy policy, terms of use, legal, etc. It is unlikely these pages would ever bring traffic to your site. Even if they did, it is not going to be the quality traffic you desire.

                In robots.txt you can add

                Disallow: /pages/privacy/

                substitute your local path for /pages/privacy/

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