Google’s John Mueller said Google Search will de-duplicate its search results based on almost duplicates. John said this on Twitter the other day when asked about canonicalizing international URLs. John wrote “We do de-duplicate based on “almost-duplicates” (I forgot the actual name), so that might be what you’re seeing there.” I do wonder what the […]
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I spotted an interesting comment from Google’s John Mueller about URLs and duplicate reduction. He said focusing on individual URLs here and there wouldn’t do you much good, it was more about finding where you can “reduce duplication by a factor of 10”. This thread is running Reddit where he added that one shouldn’t focus […]