Grey Hat SEO tactic to save you from Copy Content Issue.

9/13/2014 10:00:00 pm Mellisa 0 Comments

In Search Engine World, We can do allots of Grey hat tactics to save from Copy Content Issue. If we are creating a content which is copied by our own site then we should use 301 redirect method. 301 Redirect Method is a signals that page has been moved permanently and you are requesting to the search engine that remove the page from Index and pass link juice to another redirected page.  

While Canonical is one of the Example of the document that it has multiple version. I.e. if your website have http://www.yoursite.com/, http://yoursite.com/, http://www.yoursite.com/index.php or http://yoursite.com/index.php. All these are the Same webpage link but any Search Engine Crawler thought that, It have 4 different type of Website and your Site might be outranked by Panda update, due to Copy Content Issue. 

Now i am discussing about when and why you should use these things. 

1. 301 Redirects: 301 Redirect Method is a signals that page has been moved permanently and you are requesting to the search engine that remove the page from Index and pass link juice to another redirected page. 

When 301 Redirection Required:

•  When you are re-branding your Website, Such as your Website has permanently moved.
•  If you want to Replace your webpage with same content
•  When your have expired Webpage Content or you get 404 error. 

Some of the Common Problem Occur:

• You should have access of FTP or Server.
• Sometime Search Engine didn't remove the Content of the Website from there ranking then you will have to submit your Site through Webmaster.  
• Redirection not used properly. 

1. Canonical Attribute : According to Wikipedia the definition of Canonical is "A canonical link element is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues by specifying the "canonical", or "preferred", version of a web page as part of search engine optimization." But In my view i have already definite above. Now i would like to tell you that Canonical Attribute is not a redirect Method. When you implement rel="canonical" then it will not redirect your visitor to the new URL, It is a signal which is used for the Search Engine Crawler to Understand, Which page is to index or which page is not. 

When to implement canonical Attribute: 

•  When your Content is Similar and both Webpages are remain visible. 
•  Content Syndication
•  Dynamically Generated Page. Then you will have to handle these page through webmaster and inform Google about it. 
•  When you are not Implement 301 Redirect on any pages. 

Some of the Common Problem Occur:   

•  After Implementation of rel Canonical attribute, still your Page is seen on search engine or may be ignored by Search Engine.
• Misused of tag on the Webpages.
• When Implementation is Incorrect 

Now in Next Blog

                     We Will Learn how to add Canonical attribute via HTTP headers, so you can easily update huge amount of Pages.