Let's talk about duplicate content for your Google dental practice website. How your website pages will not necessarily help you get high up on Google's "organic" search rankings. Then let us explore how you can solve this little-known but very bad problem with almost all dental practice website.

This information here may be the most important piece of dental web marketing you will ever read.

What is the Google duplicate content filter for dental website marketing?

If you have text on your website that is a duplicate of other information found on other webpages, you will encounter the duplicate content filter.

If you buy a dental practice website from a company that builds a lot of them, chances are that most of your website content is duplicated amongst many other dentist sites.

Will this penalize your dental practice website?

No it won't penalize you in most cases. It just won't get you anywhere on Google. It could ruin your chances of most of your site actually being found on Google. Here's how…

And how does it ruin your dental practice websites chances of being indexed high up on Google?

Gooogle does not put duplicate pages into its main index. That means that any duplicate content found on your website may not contribute to your rankings on Google.

You could have thousands of pages of content but it doesn't do you any good.

Is dental website duplicate content ever a penalty that can hurt your practice website?

It can be if it is on the same site. In general it is only a filter, though, not a penalty.

How can you overcome the problems of the duplicate content filter?

Make sure your pages have original content. Pages can be rewritten to be substantially different than other pages and they will count as original.

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