Quadrille - 8:55 am on Aug 26, 2006 (gmt 0)

The management of dupe content is complex simply because there is no one single way to be sure - it all depends on how you build your site, how you link within it, whether (and how) you syndicate or share content.

For example, most of my sites are palin vanilla HTML; none of them have dupe problems because I do not duplcate, clone my stuff on article farms, or reprint other peole's stuff.

I don't syndicate my stuff, because I use it to attract visitors 9and return visitors) to MY sites. I don't use other peoples stuff for similar reasons, and if I do like it, I'll simply link to it. I 301 from domain to www.domain as a matter of routine. For me, it isn't complex.

But for someone who buys in content, or syndicates content, or uses a dynamic, database system ... there could be problems, depending on how they buy content, how they syndicate, or how they operate their database and content management.

So the 'rules' are not the same for everyone!

The simple rule is 'Don't Dupe' - it's the practice that's complex :)