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Duplicate Content

Google provides further information on duplicate content issues. IMO duplicate content issues are one of the biggest dangers to any site traffic. CR has a ton of powerful natural links from universities and government sites - but it’s traffic tanked last October when Google turned up the duplicate content filter criteria. Problems are that a lot of it’s main content is pushed down the page in coding terms, and much of it is duplicate. Solution here is to rebuild with content first via CSS, and add spin to duplicated articles to make more unique (intros, background info, etc).

Social Media - get yourself one!

Very nice indeed - you can now set up your own digg-like social media site with free open source software from Pligg. There is already a growing seedbed of such sites in development across the internet. I have a couple of unused domains I should really test this out with. :)

SEO questions - answered

Meanwhile, Rand asks a series of SEO questions he can’t answer - and has some of them answered.

Point 1 is really interesting, though - I set up a test here a while back: Link experiment - when do duplicate links count?. Funnily enough, for the second test, rather than properly test the criteria aimed for, it seems to suggest instead that “low value” (low PR/low authority) links may be less likely to pass anchor benefits - regardless of page placement. I also don’t see PageRank as a SEO concern any more - I just can’t correlate PR with rankings.