Google Detecting Page as Duplication

Be cautious with Information duplication

[EliteWeb]

Today I was asked to see how one of our sites were doing in the search engines so I went and did the checks. For some reason Google gave the page pr3 but the site wasn't anywhere to be seen.

This concerned me since I know how I do what I do when I do what I do so I did the 'cached' snapshot of the page only to see google had another URL displayed and a different page showing. We asked the client for her bio when she first came on with us so we created her a site, aparently her bio was on her own personal site to. So google detected this page to be duplicated.

Theres a twist to this, Ive never had duplication issues before however this client wanted the site background colors and coloring to be the same as her other site. Does this have anything to do with the detection of duplication because out of the 15 pages on the site only 1 had text from another site on the web.

[hakre]

if google looks for duplicates, the algo must be quite crazy. on my website i have many texts that are published on up to 100 or 1000 times in the internet on other sites, too - but the ranking is very stable since 2 years.

my first reaction on your case was, that it could not be possible with one page only. maybe everything on that page is 99% exactly the same and that's why google notices this, but i won't think so.

and you've got 14 other pages. i won't think that this one dup minds.

[EliteWeb]

The sites even hosted on a totally different server, ip, location - no relations at all. Its listed in DMOZ too with its own listing and has been for almost a year.

[hakre]

my tip: link both sites which each other. and select the name of the person's bio as link text. something like this.

[h_b_k]

I am sorry, but I have the question, how you are able to identify, that it is realy a question of duplicate contents?

[hakre]

yes h_b_k i think thats why this question was asked. i also think that it is not related to the duplicate.

[TheWebHead]

I'd hate to see sites that use Associated Press news then :)