Ask Ur SEO Q's 2011
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- trooperbill0
@SteveJobs yep
- SteveJobs0
is it ok to use images of text for aesthetic reasons as long as alt or title tags are used?
- trooperbill0
@nosaj yes this is a great idea but you must treat them as independent sites and put in thr work... theyre a link that your competitors cant replicate so its best to make them super powerful ones.
- numbers0
It wouldn't be good for both of you. The only question is whether Google would actually penalize your site (or theirs - or both) for having the same content.
I suspect they don't, considering all the times this happens in web publishing. At the same time, you're always best served by having unique content, otherwise Google might decide the other site's version is more relevant and serve that up instead when it matches the user's search.
- mydo0
so i write a blog for www.thedrum.co.uk i'm guessing posting my articles on my own site would be good for both of us?
- nosaj0
Is there a way for a small company to leverage owning multiple domain names? Specific keyword focused micro-sites on separate serves linking back to the main domain maybe? Or is this more work then it's worth?
- numbers0
^ Right, but the link you posted is talking about duplicate content within a single site. For instance if you have three differently titled pages with identical content.
I'm more skeptical that Google is able to enforce a "no duplicate content" rule across the entire internet, or would even want to.
Think about all the republished articles and copy and pasted quotations out there. Even if they don't promote identical content, they couldn't possibly slap a huge penalty on you for it.
- trooperbill0
@numbers that was the whole point of PANDA (an update rolled out over Feb - now) it devalues entire sites for having duplicate and/or low volumes of text on a page.
the issue was with scraper sites ripping content off other sites and outranking the originators. PANDA seeks to fix this imbalance. if you read up on it you will see lots of people crying because they hadnt spent enough time making good quality content and simply duplicated the same stuff off other sites.
- numbers0
What about the fact that Google themselves has come out and said there is no actual penalty for duplicate content?
I found the article above's explanation more believable, that it would not kill you to have duplicate content but not help you either. Think about hundreds of news organizations all reprinting the same article from AP for example
- trooperbill0
@mydo yes duplicate content is the biggest cause of issues with a site. make sue every paragraph is unique (paste them into google search to view similarities - if you see lots of bolded entries, re-write it some more)
- trooperbill0
@citizen_h no sIFR works fine... just dont overdo it and make sure that with javascript turned off you can still read the content and headers etc
- trooperbill0
@citizen_h yes dropdowns if written to the code (not within javascript) are indexable
- trooperbill0
@jadrian_uk i wouldnt do that. best to have unique urls i.e. /uk/en/ or /us/es/ (american prices in spanish)
- mydo0
is uniqueness important?
does duplicating content on other web pages adversely effect ranking.for example, if i had a blog content mirrored within another site. would google like that?
- citizen_h0
Does using cufon or sifr compromise SEO?
- citizen_h0
Are standard browser dropdown menus read by spiders as well CSS styled dropdowns?
- trooperbill0
@silentseven if your domain is a keyword then yes as it means theres less noise in your anchor text (www.) for links that are just your domain. however i woundlt go out and buy loads of keyword rich domains because google's working on fixing that loophole.
...if not then no.
both should resolve to your real site and if so, both can be used to mask link building activities helping you to hit anchor text harder.
- silentseven0
What about changing the Preferred domain from www.yourdomain.com to yourdomain.com. Does that affect anything?
- trooperbill0
dump due to flooding