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Duplicate Content and vBulletin Forums

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Published on 12-31-2009

There has been alot of discussion regarding duplicate content and how search engines deal with it. Often, people claim there is a duplicate content "penalty" that is imposed by search engines, specifically Google.

One blog writer wrote:

there is a real duplicate content penalty for content that is duplicated with minor or no variation across the pages of a single site. There is also a "mirror" penalty for a site that is more or less substantially duplicating another single site. What I'm talking about here is the reprint of pages of content individually, rather than in a mass, on multiple sites.

By extension, people have come to believe that because of how vBulletin is designed, that there are multiple features which may cause such a penalty. The forum archive is one of the main features people point to as likely to cause such a penalty, since it is effectively a "mirror" or duplicate of the threads on your site.

I have long believed this to be an incorrect assumption.

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Create a vBulletin page

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Joeychgo

Published on 12-28-2009

Categories:

Forum Tutorials

This is an updated article on how to create your own vbulletin powered page. It's only for use with vB4.

This is NOT my work. I'm posting this from another thread where vB Style took the time to write this out. And his work is based on the article by Gary King here - How to create your own vBulletin-powered page! (uses vB templates)

BTW - I have used this many times in other versions of vBulletin and it works well.

Instructions:

Create a new file, whatever you want to call it (let's say test.php).
Open up test.php and add the following (replace TEST with whatever template you want to show):

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CMS Test Article 2

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Joeychgo

Published on 12-25-2009

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