Google bot sometimes while crawling similar content or URL consider the different content or URL as duplicate content of the same website.
In this article, we will try to understand what is duplicate content, how many types, how it can be fixed, and why we should stay away from duplicate content?
Let's talk about Duplicate content?
Comprised of small, big software and hardware, a computer does not really have a brain. But we all assume that the computer is smart. this is not right. The computer is like a child. It's innocent, They cannot generate any data by themselves unless an entry is inserted in the computer.
For example, take Truecaller apps, many of us believe that the name given in truecaller is correct. Just think if you do not install this APP and install it on someone's mobile, if you call on that phone then it shows unknown, similarly, if you set the wrong name also, it won't inform you about the false name that you've entered.
The reason behind saying such a thing is that the computer cannot understand anything by itself. It needed to be elaborated. Like we understand a child. And a lot of SEO Experts knew this thing. And that SEO Experts started manipulating the Google Search engine. For which Google The algorithm was born.
What is Duplicate Content?
Due to being lost of content similar, it is declared as duplicate content. Duplicate content is similar content, not false content. Similar content means that the content of two or more posts is on a website is based on the same topic.
So obviously if a post is written on the same topic in which already two to four posts are written, then its URL will also be similar. A single topic means written on the same subject.
For example, suppose you have a post titled how to make a blog, another post titled how to blog's SEO, or a third post titled how to make a blog post-SEO-friendly?
Now look at the underlined sentence, it resembles each other. Google declares these types of similar content or URL as Duplicate content.
When Googlebot's crawler comes to Crawl your post and they get different URL or similar URL then Googlebot gets confused and considers that URL to be Duplicate content.
The device is responsible for the separation of the URL or Blog address. I mean the URL of the same website on a different device is a different exploiter due to which Googlebot takes duplicate URL and includes it in the list of Duplicate content.
As given below, the URL of the same website generates different URLs on different devices.
https: //beexperts99.blogspot,com/
https://beexperts99.blogspot.com/?=1
http://beexperts99.blogspot.com/?=1
http://www.beexperts.blogspot.com/
https://www.beexperts99.blogspot.com/
Types of Duplicate Content
Apart from this, Google considers much more content as duplicate content. If you want, you can also check your content before publishing the post.
There are many free tools to check which you can use. All tools give 100% results but up to 70% definitely tells you whether your content is duplicate content or not. Such as Duplichecker free tools. Let's know which such content Google considers as duplicate content.
Translate Content
It has been seen many times that bloggers change the language of one of their blog posts and post it on their other websites and also publish. We should never forget that Google's Algorithm is very smart. They soon seize the article and you have to suffer the loss.
Duplicate Content
It would be wrong to copy from another website and paste it into your website and publish it. Why Google considers it duplicate content? If you have published your 5 posts by copying this and 25 posts have written unique and original content with your hard work, then Google will put your the website's spam category and will never let you rank.
Scraping Content
Scraping content is copying one part of another website and incorporating the data from it on the post of the website. The word scrap is denoted by clause and content means topic. From this, you can guess that copying an important part of the content in your article means joining the list of duplicate content.
Curation Content
Curation content means the inspection content. Such content is not considered as duplicate content. For example, some truth is left out, the legend of the great people, no proverb, true event, or humorous jumla etc. is not considered a duplicate.
Just like if you write about Mahatma Gandhi, then it will match everyone's content, because of this, it is a true event that everyone will write about. Google does not label such content as duplicates. Yes, it definitely observes the writing and originality of that content.
Syndication content
Search engine like Google or Bing does not consider this type of content as duplicate content. To understand this, it is important to understand some things.
Many times it happens that a website has purchased its content from a content writer or a website or sometimes post their content on another website. Which Google or Bing do not consider as duplicate content.
How to fix Duplicate Content?
As I said before, Google does not have its own mind. He needs guidance from us on everything. Then Google understands that thing. For example, if we do not generate robots.txt files on our website, then Google bot will continue to Crawl our entire website.
Do you know what will be its disadvantage? when a user will open your website, due to the crawling of Google bot, it will take a lot of time to get the page loaded.
And the user will leave this website and move to another website. Therefore we instruct Google bot by robots.txt file about which pages to crawl and which not.
In the same way, to solve the problem of duplicate content till we don't give any instructions to Google bot, it will keep telling it as duplicate content to similar content or similar URL and crawl the page in the wrong direction.
Why is Google bot confused when looking at different URLs while crawling? So we have to give a directive to Google bot. And we have to give these instructions through Canonical Tag. In my previous article, I have explained everything in detail. what is the Canonical Tag and how to fix it?
The Canonical Tag website is a master link. And the home page URL is the master link to the website. This master link has to add a canonical code to the HTML section of your website. You will find this code in my canonical tag article.
Remember, this code has to be added to the Html section of the website. Not in the Theme HTML section. This link will be instructed to Google bot that no matter how different the URL or content of our website is, you have to crawl the master link or URL itself.
Conclusion
Earlier there was Duplicate content on any website, then Google used to punish that website manually. Now Google does not do this.
Now it recognizes duplicate content with the help of the Google algorithm and does not punish it and puts it in the last part of the search engine. Basically, you won't know why your website is not ranking and leave blogging monotonous.
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