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I am looking to add new content to pages that I currently have on my website. The content on these pages was taken from another provider and my idea is to rewrite the content to make it unique.
Because it is duplicate content, these pages don't get much traffic. Should I add the new content to brand new urls or just change the content on these (already indexed urls).
The issue has seen these pages contain duplicate content. If the content simply changes, will it recognise these pages as having unique content?
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Spinning content is okay. Don't use snippets, reword! Rewrite the content on your existing pages first instead of creating new ones.
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It doesn't really matter if it is on a new or existing page - however, on a new page you can title the new page to be something related perhaps? Then there is the school of thought that says if you have low quality content, get it replaced.
Regards,
Andy
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I am not the originator of the old content and this content gets virtually no hits. I know how to rewrite the content completely and all that.
My question is.... do I put it on new pages or old pages?
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I agree with this.
Digest the content and rewrite, do not copy any of the sentences. Googlebot is good at picking up this sort of duplication.
Google shouldn't penalise you if you're the originator of the content. As someone said previously, this is usually handled by timestamps of content - who got it into the index first.
My recommendation is to write completely new content, and have it available on new pages. Do not get rid of the old content (especially if you're the originator) as it may still bring you some traffic, and shouldn't penalise you.
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So once I have rewritten it completely and utterly, do I put it back on the old page or on a completely new one?
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Thanks for the tips. I am legally taking their content. It is laterooms hotel descriptions.
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"tip for future content: include things they can't include, like your name, your customers, etc etc"
If only this were the case - one of my large customers has thousands of pages of duplicated content - these scrapers don't bother taking out names sadly.
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Avoid spinning content at all costs. By all means read articles, understand them and re-write them from scratch, but don't copy snippets or sentences otherwise you run the risk of coming under the watchful eye of the Google Farmer algorithm - and you definitely don't want that!
Regards,
Andy
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Matthew,
Yes, but it depends the crawl rate that your website is being crawled by search engines.
I would advise removing DC and replacing with unique.
When finished, ping individual pages threw pingoat.com
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I'm assuming your saying another website is taking your article content? Are they giving you credit? Timestamps are your friend, I'm going to assume Google will know you are the originator. Create some backlinks pointed to your content.
tip for future content: include things they can't include, like your name, your customers, etc etc
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