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Yahoo News Syndication: Attribution Links Not SEO-Friendly

Adam Sherk

In looking at syndicated content on Yahoo News, most of the syndicated articles do not include attribution links (each news source likely has to request or provide them), but among those that do exist there is a problem. The Yahoo attribution links do not point directly to the original article URLs.

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Syndication Best Practices: Reduce the Risk of Being Outranked for.

Adam Sherk

However from an SEO perspective there is a downside, as syndication creates duplicate content issues. Search engines don’t want to show users multiple versions of the same content, so when an article has been syndicated it’s likely that one version will be given prominence – and that may or may not be the original.

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We Interrupt This Lifecast: Syndication Overload (Part 1)

Firebelly

Social technologies make syndication and aggregation simple. Syndicating all of your tweets into your Facebook status updates is inconsiderate. It allows you to update your Facebook status from Twitter, but you can choose which tweets you want to syndicate by ending the tweet with the hashtag #fb. Its annoying. Am I alone here?

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New York Times Plans to Implement Permanent Redirects on IHT.com urls

Adam Sherk

So the bottom line is, the NYT SEO team strongly advocated the use of permanent 301 redirects from all IHT.com URLs to the corresponding new URLs on NYTimes.com, and they are continuing to do what they can internally to get this implemented as soon as possible. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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One Super-Easy Way To Convert Traffic And Avoid 404 Errors

SocMed Sean

RSS, also known as real simple syndication is a web format that allows users receive your content in a variety of formats. Using a tool like FeedBurner or the WordPress MailPoet plugin, you can add a form to your blog that easily allows your visitors to subscribe. So, what’s the magic tip?

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The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites

Adam Sherk

Even when the engines do a reasonable job of filtering out duplicates in their results, sites are essentially shooting themselves in the foot by splitting internal and inbound links to a particular piece of content across multiple URLs. Appending tracking codes to URLs (e.g. ?xid=rss Syndication. xid=rss or ?cid=top-stories)

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Make the Most of Your Retweet Buttons

Adam Sherk

But regardless of which tool is used, the formatting of the tweet text is something that not every site is making the most of. Some tools automatically utilize the page’s title tag instead of the headline, which can add unnecessary phrases to the tweet and force users to clean it up before sending. Thanks for sharing.