Preventing Duplicate Content in Google, Yahoo, and other Search Engines
Google, Yahoo, Bing, and other search engines have come a long way in terms of indexing duplicate content. Although detected duplicate content doesn’t necessarily penalize your site in terms of how the search engines perceive the content, it can penalize your site by dividing users who access your site. Search engines will most likely still index your duplicate content, and thus, when a search is termed up, it could be directed towards any version of the duplicate content.
There are several ways of fixing duplicate content issues. We’ll create a scenario to determine how to fix it.