SES 2006: A Case Of Duplicate Content

Site publishers worry about being penalized for having duplicate content; the panel at SES 2006 in San Jose took on that topic in a session today. Staff writer Doug Caverly of murdok filed this exclusive look at the SES 2006 San Jose session on Duplicate Content & Multiple Site Issues.

Anne Kennedy, a managing partner at Beyond Ink, moderated this session as attendees sought more information on the increasingly complex issue of duplicate content. It isn't just web pages anymore, but RSS syndication too, that concerns webmasters. Duplicate content is a problem because the search engines consider it one, Kennedy said. However, duplicate sites in different languages are not treated as duplicate content. 301 redirects are the friend of webmasters everywhere. Kennedy recommended that webmasters choose a single canonical domain and link all internal pages to it. Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for murdok covering technology and business.