Large scale SEO duplicate content test
Do you have a large e-commerce site and think that you have your duplicate content under control? Here is a great and simple way to be sure; I would veer to bet that you are probably wrong assuming all is well.
Let’s pick on the largest e-commerce site as a test. Our friends at Amazon.com
First step, pick a manufacturer’s part number. It’s an easy way to assume you are looking at the same product. In this case I am going to use a very new IPOD, model # MA446LL/A.
Simply type in site:amazon.com MA446LL/A and you will find a large list of fairly similar pages. Some not so similar, but all in all why do you need 338 pages about one product?
I tried the same thing on buy.com and found 6 results, most in the supplemental listings, not so good. But they are not known for being strong at SEO.
Let’s pick on the largest e-commerce site as a test. Our friends at Amazon.com
First step, pick a manufacturer’s part number. It’s an easy way to assume you are looking at the same product. In this case I am going to use a very new IPOD, model # MA446LL/A.
Simply type in site:amazon.com MA446LL/A and you will find a large list of fairly similar pages. Some not so similar, but all in all why do you need 338 pages about one product?
I tried the same thing on buy.com and found 6 results, most in the supplemental listings, not so good. But they are not known for being strong at SEO.
Labels: duplicate content, seo
by Aaron Shear
2 Comments:
Interesting. Maybe their old popular domains, with high trust level and PR are overpowering the dupe content problem.
Benj,
I think your right, Google must simply pick what it feels is the best result.
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