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Back To The Future, With Google +1 & Compunet

Social Media, from the 1980s

Compunet MailboxIn 1984 Commodore UK launched a service called Compunet. Compunet offered downloads, information pages, electronic mail, bulletin board systems, online gaming and chat rooms. All a UK home user had to do was buy a modem for their Commodore 64, make an adjustment to their phone line and away they went.

Compunet also offer users the exciting prospect of teleshopping, telebanking, the buying and selling of real estate, insurance quotes, and much more.

Amazingly, given the recent discussion surrounding Google +1, the Google Panda update, and social media in general, Compunet actually allowed users to vote on content, ala a Facebook Like or a Google 1+. In 1984.

Down the duplicate content rabbit hole

Duplicate content rabbit hole

If you have even a passing interest in SEO, from a business perspective or a technical viewpoint, you have probably heard of duplicate content and it being an issue in gaining good search engine rankings.

And this is perfectly true, a poorly structured website can create its own internal architecture issues and deter search engines from crawling, indexing and ultimate ranking your webpage highly for a target term.

In this article I am going to venture down the duplicate content rabbit hole and show how a normal website, with completely uniquely written content, can create horrendous internal duplicate content issues just though some simple technical mistakes.

So come with me and Alice as we follow the white rabbit down the weird and wonderful rabbit hole of duplicate content…