SEO Tycoon

**seolman** · 02-02-2007, 10:29 AM

A web site we developed has a database back-end. The client now wants to have other web sites tie into this database. Will this cause any duplicate content problems?

**gringo** · 02-02-2007, 10:33 AM

It depends on how you use the data in the database. If the rendered pages are duplicates then.....they are duplicate pages

**chrishirst** · 02-05-2007, 06:47 AM

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/the-go...e-content.html

**bzimage** · 02-05-2007, 03:16 PM

There is really not a way to track duped content unfortunately, if you write it its your content, moving it to a different site or form of listing it should not affect that or your rankings at all.

**trichnosis** · 02-05-2007, 06:23 PM

G will not punish you because of the dublicate content . read http://www.webmaster-talk.com/the-go...e-content.html

**theGypsy** · 06:56 PM

Well since I was in the neighborhood, some goodies on Dupes for U since I don’t believe the G post really does it credit… figured I’d chime in

Duplicate content issues

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That said, there still seems to be some confusion out in the SEO world over ‘duplicate content’ and how search engines treat and deal with them. Right away I would like to say - RELAX -. If you are doing sneaky things like filling up a site with dodgy content that YOU KNOW is duplicate, then worry. Most people that may have duplicate content issues are honest web site owners and aren’t at risk of any penalization.

Is it really a Penalty?

That is the crux of the main misconceptions. Generally speaking it is a ‘duplicate content filter’ not a ‘penalty’ per se, as many in the SEO world seem to agonize over. At various points in the indexation and retrieval process, various documents (web pages) are scored and ultimately removed from the results for a given query.
Certainly, if one satisfies other ‘spam’ factors or has an entire site of duplication (aggregate) then it can certainly migrate into a penalty. As I said, for the average website owner you shouldn’t have to worry about penalties, most that migrate to this ground, know the path they are on. Penalties can also be incurred for what is known as a "mirror" - the penalty for a site that is more or less substantially duplicating another single site.

In the end of the story (sorry to spoil it) other factors would have to be astisfied to get it tagged for any kind of penalty.

So for the most part it is a FILTER, it can become a penelty in the right situations with other concurrent factors

My 2c