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mcockrel - 9:27 pm on Jan 15, 2005 (gmt 0)


My theory as to how it works is

  1. Google Indexes Your Entire Site
  2. Google Notices Identical Code on every page (or several pages) of your Site
  3. Google Identifies this as a template and ignores it (they have already followed all links)
  4. Finally, Google Uses the remaining content to determine what searches the page shoud come up for

Again this is just my theory, but it would explain why sites that have seperate pages for blue, green, white, etc widgets are able to be indexed and rank highly for all when the only real difference in the pages is maybe 10% (price, pic, short description).

I think their is a seperate penalty for content that is dup between domain names. For this it seems Google penalizes the page and possibly the whole site. I posted an example where it seems that at least on some sites Google has penalized the entire site for having dup content

The thread where I talked about this is [webmasterworld.com...]

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