CHAPTER 10

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Duplicate Content

Okay, this will be one of the longer chapters in the book. Duplicate content is an issue with many content management systems (CMSs), and Joomla is simply one of these. Before I dive deeper into this, why is duplicate content such an issue?

First of all, Google simply loves unique content, and any content that is duplicated is inferior to the original content. Now, between web sites (cross-domain duplicate content), this may not always be an issue, if you are the one who created the content. People sometimes “steal” content by copying interesting articles and using them on their own web sites or in data-feeds, but ...

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