The Internet is such a very huge community, with over a million websites, pages and even viruses interconnected with each other. It is so great and widespread that sometimes ideas and contents can be easily duplicated or copied. Or in some cases, an individual posts the exact same words on two different domains, making two distinct websites. However, they still contain the same substance and may be tracked down by various search technologies. These are called duplicate contents. And how innocent though you may be of copying someone’s work or posting your articles in different websites, it’s still important to know what duplicate contents are and how search technologies trace them.
What is a duplicate search?
A duplicate search is essentially the same content posted on two or more distinct websites. Duplicate articles, or any other web contents for that matter, may contain the exact word for word account of the original one, while some have only a few parts changed in them.
How Search Engines Find Duplicate Contents
Articles with duplicate content may seem harmless; nonetheless, it’s when search engines detect them that you might be at a risk.
Search bots crawl around the whole World Wide Web to provide results based on entered keywords. These bots are inclined to filter all the contents of various websites and dispose the unnecessary pages. When these bots trace duplicate materials, they will choose one article based on a certain standard. This article will be the one placed on the results list; and it might not be yours if you have a similar content.
Search engines use different ways to detect duplicate contents. Google, for example, sorts contents through indexing search engine. This is done through the careful comparison of the contents of the websites. If Google finds multiple websites containing the same content, they are then sorted and ranked according to the search engine’s criteria. Several adjustments are made in the search engine’s indexing, and only the article which topped the rank is displayed as a search result.
Here are some of the standards some other search technologies use to trace duplicate contents and eliminating them.
Product Specifications
There are a large number of products and services sold throughout the web. Also, there are as quite as many product descriptions available. More often than not, this gives rise to copying of reviews and articles. Other standards include changed print pages, canonicalization and the publishing of duplicate contents on different URL’s. While search engines actually attempt to trace the original one among the duplicate contents, it is still not that reliable. In the end, it’s a lot better just to avoid having one.