Comments on Orange County SEO Consultants & Expert Web Designers Search Blog by Cal Coast Web Design: SES 2007 - Successful Site Architecture

I always assumed duplicate content could only come...

2007-09-24T12:25:00.000-07:00

I always assumed duplicate content could only come from positng duplicate content - not from breadcrumbs. I think Scott is right here too - its hard to be unique with so many compettitve sites out there - but you can do it. Find out what your competitors are doing and do something different. While much of the contnet may be simmilar, the way you present it makes a huge difference in who visitors will choose.

I like the “Success = Uniqueness, quality content,...

2007-09-10T07:36:00.000-07:00

I like the “Success = Uniqueness, quality content, & website architecture used to make a site user friendly!” however it’s so hard to be unique with your website anymore. There are countless websites that deal with the same things so I agree that beyond being unique you have to have quality content, and an easy to use, attractive website.

Hmmm I didn’t know that duplicate content could come from “breadcrumbs” in a URL, well I never gave it any thought but now I see! And yes, you still need to give the visitor a way to determine where they came from so this seems a bit tricky. Your comment about No session IDs is another example of something I have never given any thought to and didn’t know that absolute links play a more helpful role than relative links.

I think this session and the usability session sho...

2007-08-24T18:52:00.000-07:00

I think this session and the usability session should have been back to back.

Not too much new here for me to comment on, we have been practicing these concepts for years.

The breadcrumbs threw me for a loop though, didn't think about that one.

Also, a warning brought up in one of my other classes on duplicate content: add no follow tags on "printable" or "pdf" page versions. That's new... search engines couldn't always read the .pdf or .doc filetype, but now that they can it could be tagged duplicate content.