Understanding the Duplicate Content Check at Google
- January 19th, 2012
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Certain filters are used by Google to ensure that their users get the best possible search results. One of those filters is used to help distinguish pages that have identical content on a particular topic to prevent users from getting duplicate content for every search result. Because this can be very frustrating, Google does its best to eliminate identical duplicate content through the use of its duplicate content check tool. Here are a couple of the filters used by Google and the methods employed:
* The Google Sandbox
This tool is utilized as a means of preventing brand new websites from getting the top ranked listings for popular search terms. If you want to bypass this tool, your best bet is to link up your websites with other highly rated and ranked websites to remove the sandbox filter.
* The Google-30
This particular filter is used and attached to any websites that Google determines has used various methods of prohibited spam. If Google finds your website to be guilty of using these spamming techniques, your site will drop 30 ranks. The only way to bypass this filter from Google is to utilize black hat SEO methods within your site structure.
* Google Bombing
This particular filter is used to locate web pages that have a lot of external links within the same website that have content that is similarly linked within the hyperlink tags. This filter is used to identify paid link promotions and is used as a means of cutting down spam. It can be bypassed effectively by removing the links and converting them into different linked text before re-applying for the site to be indexed by the engine. While it can be difficult to bypass this particular filter, it can be accomplished if the links are removed.
* CO-citation Linking
This filter is utilized by Google to identify or define the topic of your website based upon the topics of the websites that you link out to from website. The way this works is to identify a link that you have on your site to a specific topic, such as medical waste, which would then identify your website as being medically-related.
The best way to bypass this Google filter is to be careful about the other websites that your site links to. Make sure that you only link up to sites that have content that is relevant to your site’s topic. Another way to bypass this filter would be to pay attention to how many pages you are creating for your website and be careful not to add too many in a single day. This particular filter will also reveal the extra uses of the various HTML-based tags. You can bypass this filter by not abusing the optimization of these tags.
* Google Domain Name Age Filter
This particular filter is very similar to the Sandbox and Trust Rank filters. You can bypass this filter by making sure to only use links of high-quality.
* Page Load Time
This particular filter ensures that your web pages are optimized and streamlined enough to load quickly and easily without too long of a load-time. You can bypass this filter by making sure your site loads fast.
For more information, check out Duplicate Content Check
