Chapter 5
Dealing with Duplicate Content
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding duplicate content so that you can avoid it
Recognizing how content can become duplicated
Resolving duplicate content issues
Understanding how a federal copyright can protect your site
Handling your content
In this chapter, you find out how to avoid having duplicate content on your own website and why that’s important. We also explain how your content can become duplicated (copied) on other websites and the variety of causes for it, ranging from accidental to downright malicious. Because you want to protect your original website content and prevent duplication as much as possible, we list various sources of duplicate content and give you recommendations for how to deal with each type of situation.
Duplicate content refers to text that is repeated on more than one web page either on your site or on other sites. Some duplication is natural and not a problem. For example, if you write about someone’s article, you ...
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