Whitey - 1:13 am on Aug 28, 2006 (gmt 0)

Just opening this out a bit, what's the situation with these duplicate content scenarios:

Affiliate Feeds:

www..mysite.com/my-books-content-and-title/ links to the site that feeds it with a partial XML feed, so that approximately 50% of the content is the same, although structured differently - www.theirsite.com/my-books-content-and-title/

-Can both sets of content co exist on the SERP's
-Which content will take precedence in the SERP's, my site or their site?

Multiple regional domains [ same content ]:

Several sites have the same content and same domain name with a different regional extension. Site 1 is mysite.co.uk and the owner wants to publish those results accordingly for each market audience on Google.co.uk ; Site 2 is mysite.ca;
Site 3 is mysite.com and so on.

Will Google restrict Site 1 from publishing it's results on Google.co.uk and so on? ie will Google ignore the "duplicate content on the regional SERP's" because there are no other similar results "only" on the regional Google ".co.uk" site?

Offsite page effects on referring links

Given that there are different types of supplementals, can the status of a link from a referring page in the index effect the receiving page's search result ranking.

ie if the referring page has a "supplemental status" [ noting that there are different types of supplementals ]

Meta Titles , Descriptions and content

from [webmasterworld.com...] Building the Perfect Page - Part II - The Basics Developing an effective <title> element.- [webmasterworld.com...] Title Tags: A badly written title will sink your site How to sabotage your web site without even knowing it. - [webmasterworld.com...]

Given that large db driven sites have limits on unique data fields and combinations that they can pull in and display, and, if it is now even more necessary to have different titles and descriptions, approximately how different should they be weighted and structured in the differentiation?

Will 50 sites all with the same meta title pose a duplicate content problem in the eyes of Google?

e.g. "Blue Widgets in Memphis" Site A , Site B and so on

Past guidelines on Meta Descriptions

Has anything changed from this?

Maybe the similar character %'s [ percentages ] and structure of the phrases are more of an issue? I may have missed it, but i didn't see it mentioned and now might be a good time to think about this.

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum5/4785.htm Building the Perfect Page - Part III - The Basics Developing an effective META Description Tag. meta Description Tag (metadata) The meta Description Tag usually consists of 25 to 30 words or less using no more than 160 to 180 characters total (including spaces). The meta description also shows up in many search engine results as a summary of your site.