What is Duplicate content?
The short answer
Duplicate content is the same or near-identical text at more than one URL, which makes search engines choose one version and can split ranking signals.
Duplicate content, explained
Canonical tags, redirects and genuinely unique copy for each page solve it.
Questions people ask about Duplicate content
What is Duplicate content?
Duplicate content is the same or near-identical text at more than one URL, which makes search engines choose one version and can split ranking signals.
Related terms
A canonical URL tells search engines which address is the main version of a page when the same content is reachable at several URLs.
IndexingIndexing is when a search engine stores a crawled page in its database so it can appear in results; a page that is not indexed cannot rank.
SEOSEO is the practice of making a website easier for search engines to crawl, understand and rank, so it appears for the searches its audience actually makes.
KeywordA keyword is a word or phrase people type into a search engine; SEO matches pages to the keywords their audience uses.
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