Comments on: SEO duplicate contents question: Are site listings considered duplicated contents? http://www.dominatinglocalsearch.com/local-seo/seo-duplicate-contents-question-are-site-listings-considered-duplicated-contents Getting Search Engine Traffic to Your Local Website Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:50:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael M http://www.dominatinglocalsearch.com/local-seo/seo-duplicate-contents-question-are-site-listings-considered-duplicated-contents/comment-page-1#comment-80 Michael M Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:16:59 +0000 http://www.dominatinglocalsearch.com/local-seo/seo-duplicate-contents-question-are-site-listings-considered-duplicated-contents#comment-80 I don't think you would have an issue, cutting and pasting things like the address and phone numbers of bowling locations is not going to be a problem. If you take the descriptions from 1,000's of different bowling sites, this would hardly be duplicate content. If you take them from 1 or 2 other bowling directories, then you may have an issue. For the most part, you would be providing general information like a directory, so you would be ok. You would actually be making something useful. Seems like quite a big undertaking.<br><b>References : </b><br> I don't think you would have an issue, cutting and pasting things like the address and phone numbers of bowling locations is not going to be a problem. If you take the descriptions from 1,000's of different bowling sites, this would hardly be duplicate content. If you take them from 1 or 2 other bowling directories, then you may have an issue. For the most part, you would be providing general information like a directory, so you would be ok. You would actually be making something useful. Seems like quite a big undertaking.
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]]> By: Mark Welch http://www.dominatinglocalsearch.com/local-seo/seo-duplicate-contents-question-are-site-listings-considered-duplicated-contents/comment-page-1#comment-79 Mark Welch Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:52:59 +0000 http://www.dominatinglocalsearch.com/local-seo/seo-duplicate-contents-question-are-site-listings-considered-duplicated-contents#comment-79 I think you already know the answer: by doing this, you would (1) be nearly guaranteeing penalties by Google for 'duplicate content,' which means your pages would likely be ranked at the end of most search results, and (2) infringing the copyrights of all the sites which you copy (even if you believe it's helpful to them). I would think the better solution would be to create your own 'checklist' of features and options for each location, and then generate a table or grid for each. Then people could search (Candlepin bowling; adult leagues; open bowl on Friday night -- I don't know which factors might be important to bowlers since I haven't bowled since our local bowling alley closed 2 years ago).<br><b>References : </b><br> I think you already know the answer: by doing this, you would (1) be nearly guaranteeing penalties by Google for 'duplicate content,' which means your pages would likely be ranked at the end of most search results, and (2) infringing the copyrights of all the sites which you copy (even if you believe it's helpful to them).

I would think the better solution would be to create your own 'checklist' of features and options for each location, and then generate a table or grid for each. Then people could search (Candlepin bowling; adult leagues; open bowl on Friday night — I don't know which factors might be important to bowlers since I haven't bowled since our local bowling alley closed 2 years ago).
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