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Stupid question perhaps, but there goes nothin'.
I am experimenting with a blog.
If I write a post (with Adsense code) called "10 tips about red widgets" I let the blog software (WP) put it in only one category, say "red widgets".
Now this post will be shown on the home page of the domain for a while. At the same time the post is shown on www.domain.com/redwidgets/ and on www.domain.com/redwidgets/10-tips-about-red-widgets.html. There is no way around it I believe.
The same post (including the Adsense code) is thus shown on 3 url's. Technically this sounds like duplicating pages with Adsense code on it, but as I believe this principle of putting a post on the home page and in a category at the same time is just part of the nature of blogs.
Is this violation of AS TOS or am I being paranoid?
Thanks in advance for any ideas,
H.
am I being paranoid?
yes
Where on earth did you get the notion that duplicat content would be against the AdSense TOS?
Well, from the TOS...
Or the Google AdSense Program Policies if you will.
"Do not create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content."
It is one of the basic rules of Adsense I believe.
Do not tell me you have duplicates galore...
H.
"Do not create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content."
It is one of the basic rules of Adsense I believe.
Do not tell me you have duplicates galore...
I'm sorry for my first, short and grumpy reply, but there are too many people worrying too much about duplicate content penalties for SERPs, and since the only worry you need to have about this is when a site that is much older and carrying much higher PR than your site re-publish your material, I first thought that you where one of those duplicate content paranoids.
Well. Do I have massive amounts of duplicated content? Judge for yourself:
On my index page I publish a snipped of the last 30 pages published on my site. These pages art, just as yours, organized in sub categories, about 20 of them or so, and in each sub directory you'll find snippets from the 30 most recently published pages on the site. Then, there is the content page, where you, in most cases would find the snippet over again. In 80% of the cases constituting the first 355 chars of the content text.
Now. If you click on any of my predefined keyword (or related pages) links, you will find the same snippets over again, only organized differently since they would be pulled up by relevance instead of by date published, and if you perform a search on the site... Yup. There they are again.
The thing is, as a result of the site's natural features it might pull up the same snippets multiple times, and with many diffent URLs, but the duplication is never intended as such, and you would have a hard time finding 2 pages with more than 65% duplication.
Still. This is the way most of my sites are organized, and has been organized, since long before AdSense was around.
On other sites, you might pull up the same content using up to 30 different two-mile long urls. All depending on how you where browsing the site. (One parameter if you arrive at page d from page a and another if you came through pages d and e from page z.)
All these sites have been manually revised by the Google AdSense team multiple times, and since they are all jam packed with content pages, the natural duplication that appears via the sites' features is clearly nothing to worry about.
Many thanks for your thoughts.
This will help me a lot.
Guess I need to get the snippets instead of repetition of the entire article. Would be much more user friendly too!
H.
