Human vs machine intelligence: How to win when ‘duplicate’ content is unique
As impressive as machine learning and algorithm-based intelligence can be, they often lack something that comes naturally to humans: common sense. It’s common knowledge that putting the same content on multiple pages produces duplicate content. But what if you create pages about similar things, with differences that matter? Algorithms flag them as duplicates, though humans have no problem telling pages like these apart: E-commerce: similar products with multiple variants or critical differences Travel: hotel branches, destination packages with similar content Classifieds: exhaustive listings for identical items Business: pages for local branches offering the same services in different regions How does this happen? How can you spot issues? What can do you about it? The danger of duplicate content Duplicate content interferes with your ability to make your site visible to search users through: Loss of ranking for unique pages that unintentionally compete for the sam...