• In the ecommerce websites for product descriptions

Any newly launched product has several distributors on the web. As a result, these websites offer the same text about the products and their features which thus makes them duplicate content on the web.

• Alternate print pages

Several websites on the web offer a specific printing format with the same content on them. If the owner of the website doesn’t make use of the robots.txt disallow command, then the search engines don’t index these web pages.

• Canonical issues

Search engines usually index the URLs as compared to the webpages and so, there are chances that they index the same website displayed in different forms. The content of the same website is hence showed as a copy of itself and hence the search engines don’t index these webpages.

Apart from these three reasons, there are several other situations such as session IDs for search engines, syndicated RSS feeds, etc. where in the search engines identifies duplicate content. We will post more details about those in near future. Keep following the KPMRS blog for these tips!

• http://www.example.com (TYPE 1)
• http://example.com/(TYPE 2)
• http://www.example.com/index.html (TYPE 3)

These URLs may point to the same webpage and show same content but technically they all are different. Search engine crawlers consider them as all different URLs which means they all will compete with each other for their positions in SERP.

Think about a scenario where 100 websites have put your link on their home page. 30 of those sites are pointing to Type 1 URL. 25 are pointing to Type 2 URL. 45 are pointing to Type 3 URL.

Now they are all pointing to your home page but to different URLs. So you are losing a huge chunk of backlinks for 1 common page which you could have got if all 100 links were pointing to just one URL.

There is a very simple solution to fix this problem. Choose just one common URL (whichever you prefer) and forward all the other URLs to that one URL. Make sure you use 301 redirect to forward the URLs.

Using 301 redirects can greatly help in consolidating your website rankings

It is a very simple technique to make sure you do not loose any link juice in the SEO Campaign for your website. If you liked reading this article on the KPMRS Blog, make sure to subscribe to our feed!

Since our last update, we have a news about the KPMRS iPhone app that we just cannot keep to ourselves. So we’ll go ahead and share it with you!

The KPMRS iPhone App is now available for sale

Ever since KPMRS was envisioned, we have sought to create more and more features around this concept. In other words, we have thought more and more about you, our Users, and what you would want and expect from KPMRS. And after months of haggling, in our struggle to please our users, we finally have the approval from Apple to officially launch the KPMRS iPhone App! If you’re wondering, yes, getting that approval from Apple for your own App is a tough job!

The KPMRS iPhone App allows to you check your website rankings for the keywords of your choice, on three Search Engines – Google, Yahoo and Bing, all on your iPhone! You can check out the official iPhone Launch Pad on KPMRS.com. Don’t forget to catch a How it works video here. Or you can just buy it from the Apple iTunes store by clicking on the button below

click here to buy the KPMRS iPhone App

And as always, we promise to continue adding more features to the iPhone app, so you, our users, can stay as happy as always. If you liked this post, don’t forget to subscribe to our feed!

Microsoft's Bing will now power Yahoo's Search Results.

But what does it really mean to your website rankings? How would it effect your SEO efforts? Our experts analyzed its possible consequences and are trying to answer some of the questions you are probably wondering about right now. Read on…

1. Should I optimize my website for Yahoo! SERPs now ?

There’s no need, really. Especially since Yahoo! will henceforth use Bing’s algorithm to show its search results, which basically means you will be wasting your time if you optimize for Yahoo!

2. Will my site’s current rankings change on Yahoo?

Yes, it should since Yahoo! will now be powered by Microsoft’s search technology which means search results should be the same on Yahoo and Bing. This deal will most like be a boon to those webmasters and SE Experts who are ranking well on Bing. Obviously, we’re not very hopeful about the current top rankers on Yahoo!

3. What about Yahoo! Search APIs, site explorer etc?

Honestly, even we do not have a clear answer to this. We think, however, that it would now be influenced by Bing (Microsoft) results as well. We’ll of course let you know when we know ourselves

4. Will Yahoo’s (paid) directory submissions be any useful for my website rankings now?

Yahoo’s paid directory submission has never been the factor of your organic search ranking. So no, it will not effect your ranks.

So here we are, providing you a first hand account of the latest buzz in the Search Engine World along with our humble opinion about the same. We’d like to know your feedback about this development and its possible consequences. Don’t forget to drop your comments below. We’ll keep you updated with more information as it comes.

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Social media is the buzzword today and everyone is spending a considerable amount of money in SMM (Social Media Marketing to the lesser known) as a part of their Internet Marketing budget. When we started KPMRS, the idea was to help SEO consultants, internet marketers or any website owner by monitoring their website rankings on 3 major search engines – Google, Yahoo & Bing. But this idea was not unique and we are still not the only providers who is tracking your search engine rankings.

But we also wanted to provide something extra, something different and unique from what others are providing. Sticking to that principal, we thought of providing a report of how popular are your websites on the social networking & bookmarking websites like – Delicious, Twitter, Flickr, Technocrati, Digg etc. I personally found it very interesting and useful to find my website’s social activities along with its rankings on search engines – all at one place.

Social popularity report for your website

Unfortunately, the numbers are not very great right now, but we were not expecting a lot in just a month anyway Although it does tell me that more than 80 people have bookmarked our websites on Delicious and 30 people have talked about us on Technorati. So far, so good!

Check your website’s social popularity with this tool. Sign up now, submit your website and see how popular are you in social media industry!

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