Comments on: Search Engine Optimization: What NOT To DO http://www.stanleytang.com/blog/search-engine-optimization-what-not-to-do/ The Journey of a Young Internet Entrepreneur Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:42:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sam http://www.stanleytang.com/blog/search-engine-optimization-what-not-to-do/comment-page-1/#comment-1155 Sam Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:24:43 +0000 http://www.stanleytang.com/2008/03/13/search-engine-optimization-what-not-to-do/#comment-1155 Stanley, The duplicate content penalty actually applies to content within your own website webpages. So if you have 20 links and they comprise of more then 40-50% of content within a webpage then google will think that your links are duplicate information. To avoid this make sure you have more unique content on your pages then the links / other misc text that's repeated (navigation, header, footer, etx which is usually repeated). Stanley,

The duplicate content penalty actually applies to content within your own website webpages. So if you have 20 links and they comprise of more then 40-50% of content within a webpage then google will think that your links are duplicate information.

To avoid this make sure you have more unique content on your pages then the links / other misc text that’s repeated (navigation, header, footer, etx which is usually repeated).

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