Content issue
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Hi,
Quick question;
I have set up a micro site in which i was going to take some of the content from my reviews and recipes my customers have posted and have them placed on my other site.
The site i currently have is a large site receiving over 200,00 visitors every day.
Will this be affected as duplicate content if i was to do this as i do not want to affect my rankings. Any suggestions what i can do to get round this?
Cheers
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What is the duplicate content is in one site does this still not affect the site and its rankings?
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There's no easy way around this. Your original site won't be affected but your new site will struggle to rank if the pages are all duplicate.
What you can do is add unique content to each page and simply integrate small sections of your content with the duplicate reviews and recipes. It's really not ideal though but it will give you a much better chance of indexing well.
However
If your reviews and recipes have their own URL then you can use a rel canonical redirect. This will transfer all PageRank to the new review and recipe pages without redirecting the user.
Let's say for example that you don't care about your original site ranking for reviews:
You have a page with a bunch of reviews down the bottom that are duplicate of the review pages themselves - whack a in the header and then for the individual review pages stick in a . That's of course if you don't want your reviews ranking on your original page - something that I would doubt to be the case if you're getting 20,000 visits a day.
If you do want any more info about the above then send me a PM.
Nick
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You can get past the duplicate content issue by adding rel canonical tag to your original website. Typically, duplicate content issue arises if the content is more than 40-45% similar to the original content.
You can also block the spider access to the duplicate pages on the micro site by using meta robots tags.
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Will the reviews be coming from multiple sites? If so, I'd think a mix of the content from various sites will be fine. Google loves testimonials.
If not, I'm not qualified enough to respond with an answer for you
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It won't affect your main site at all - but the micro site won't rank. It's a new site with duplicate content - that for sure won't rank in search engines. However if you don't need this micro site to rank you are safe - duplicate content is not a penalty issue - you just don't rank with it.
Hope it helps.
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