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SEO Wordsmith

A blog devoted to search engine optimization, search engine marketing, and web traffic, as written by an experienced web marketer and copywriter.

How to Spot and Fight Duplicate Content

Posted on Monday January 5th, 2009 at 19:15 in google, SEO Basics, duplicate content

Google may be like God, but Google is also imperfect. So imperfect that Google spiders can’t differentiate between the original source of an article and some spam site that picks it up. What can happen in this case is that your own site is dock...
Do Blogs Create Duplicate Content? Using Smart Archives

Posted on Monday December 1st, 2008 at 21:04 in google, blogging, wordpress plugins, duplicate content, site indexing

The word on blogs is that they’re built for SEO. The trick to indexing your entire site is to link between pages on the site. If you create a new article post, you should think about linking to an older article that hasn’t gotten a lot of tra...