Is this okay with google if i can access my sub categories from two different path?
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My website is url is abcd.com. One of my category url is abcd.com/mobile.aspx. Which contains 5 sub categories :-
- samung Mobile 2) Nokia Mobile 3) Sony Mobile 4) HTC Mobile 5) Blackberry Mobile
Now if i go in to HTC Mobile sub categories i.e. abcd.com/htcmobile.aspx here i will see all the product related to HTC Mobile.
But at below of all product i will find all sub categories that is samsung mobile, nokia mobile, sony mobile and blackberry mobile.
So i want to task is this okay? Google will not count these categories as duplicate that is i can access all 4 categories i.e. samsung, nokia, sony and blackberry from here 1) abcd.com/mobile.aspx and 2) abcd.com/htcmobile.aspx
Thanks!
Dev
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Hi Dev,
It's really going to depend on how much of the content is duplicated. From what I've seen, Google isn't very good at chunking pages up YET. They're good at spotting entire pages duplicated (e.g. press releases or articles syndicated across multiple sites), and pages on your site that have the majority of the content the same. But I don't think you're going to run into trouble with a page that has a number of sections, each of which is an entire page on its own.
Where you MIGHT run into trouble is with Panda and thin content. If the content you have for each of the manufacturers is very light, i.e. just a few sentences and an image or two, then those pages might be seen as thin content. While I don't think you have to hit the magic 2000 word mark on every page to avoid being seen as thin content, you certainly are going to want more than 100 words. And, if those manufacturer pages are important search targets for competitive terms--well, then, you probably WILL want those pages to contain somewhere near 2000 words each.
In THAT case, you'll probably want to change the content on the all-manufacturers page, and instead just put a short excerpt for each manufacturer there, along with some sort of "learn more" link to the single manufacturer page.
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Hi Dev,
If you have same content on several pages - yes it's duplicate.
For example: abcd.com/htcmobile.aspx and below of all products are other sub categories (samsuing, nokia etc) with all products, description etc. - it's duplicate because on the other pages you will have same content but in different order.
If you are are talking about links to other categories below all products on abcd.com/htcmobile.aspx for example, it's just links (like navigation to other subcategories) so this is not duplicate.
Regards,
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