Google penalizing site?

Can the google trakk similar content

[AutoTerminal]

We have a main site and we also have subdomain depending on our regional offices. The site is up for 2 years but the rank is still PR 3 even we have regularly doing SEO and link building.

Some of the pages in main URL is similar to the pages of subdomain. Is Google penalizing the domain for similarity of pages?

Anyone could give theory for this.

[hippyhop]

Sure, Google does. Otherwise we'll got a lot of similar websites re-publishing each other's content listed on the top of search results. But Google doesn't penalize the domain, it penalizes just the page (and its in-out links), because there are many quality websites re-publishing content.

[bilalseo]

yes I have seen one website in medical billing industry that running duplicate contents with different urls. I checked that site and recommend google to penalize. But Google doesn't care at all, as to found that site spammed.

[Marcia]

>>The site is up for 2 years but the rank is still PR 3 even we have regularly doing SEO and link building.

I guess it's the homepage that's still PR3, but even with regular link building, it takes a certain number of IBLs with enough PR to increase to PR4, which is just a rounded-off number. It could be 3.9. You also have to look at the internal (and outbound) linking and internal PR distribution within the site.

>>Some of the pages in main URL is similar to the pages of subdomain. Is Google penalizing the domain for similarity of pages?

That's a different issue; PR is mathematical for each page depending on the links to the page. Duplicates are filtered out is what happens.

How similar are the pages? Are there large portions of text that are identical, with just a few word changed?

[martinibuster]

AutoTerminal, any more questions about Google and their algorithm or their toolbar belong in the appropriate Google forum. The Link Development forum is about discussions ABOUT developing links. See our charter for more information.

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