Duplicate Content: It's Not What You Think!
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djbaxter
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I don't think there's anything special going on with duplicate content. The recent Farmers/Panda update is cracking down on article sites and aggregators, though, but there the focus is more on "crap content" rather than duplicate content.
I mass submit articles without spinning them, so I synicate a lot.
And I've had some pretty good serp boosts in the last few days, since the Google updates.
Supossedly, you shouldn't post content to your site first before submitting it to article directories any more though...at least that's what the masses are saying. I never did that anyway, because I just use articles for their backlinks to get the quality content on my website ranked.
Content is still King, relationships are still golden, and quality still rules the world.
And I've had some pretty good serp boosts in the last few days, since the Google updates.
Supossedly, you shouldn't post content to your site first before submitting it to article directories any more though...at least that's what the masses are saying. I never did that anyway, because I just use articles for their backlinks to get the quality content on my website ranked.
Content is still King, relationships are still golden, and quality still rules the world.
This post attracted me from Google and I wanted to post this video that I found on this subject, I cannot post a link so put the youtube url where it should go:
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YouTube - Duplicate Content & Multiple Site Issues by GoogleWebmasterHelp
2009
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YouTube - Duplicate Content & Multiple Site Issues by GoogleWebmasterHelp
2009
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Thank you for clearing this up. Great points, great logical structure of ideas and overall a great post.
sarahberra
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Good points!! I get confused about duplicate content also. I always write unique articles just to make sure I'm covered, but I have no way of checking whether or not someone tried to steal my content. I just don't have time to chase every article.
Yeah there's many factors which contribute to duplicate content and IP address is one of them. Google can't be too hasty to say what is or isn't duplicate content when penalizing a website as if that were the case then competitors would be duplicate contenting there competition to get them in the sh*t house with Google!
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djbaxter
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Google doesn't penalize for duplicate content at all. There is no duplicate content penalty. It doesn't exist and never has existed.
In a way I mean penalise the value of the articles that are duplicates and the links thereof rather than penalise the website.
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.......and penalise in the sense the Google may devalue the weight in which the duplicate content would carry in terms of say it's link juice.
Another SEO myth that many find difficult to believe. Thanks for pointing it out clearly here for everyone to see, learn and apply.
Hello everyone,
I have been seeing in a lot of threads the misunderstanding of duplicate content. I am writing this to eliminate the misunderstanding so that fear of something does not effect your online marketing.
I guess the first thing is to cover the assumptions of the masses of what it is, and then show you the reality of it.
I will give you actual numbers and links so that you can check it out yourself. Then you can see for yourself with proof that there are a lot of people out there spreading ?Rumors? instead of facts.
Let?s get started. Most people think that syndicated articles or distribution to multiple places will get the articles removed from the index of Google or Yahoo. If this were true then 99% of articles, news releases, all RSS feeds would be removed from the indexes.
MSN, CNN, ABC, NBC, Google News, Yahoo News would all be violating their own rules.
They use the same news stories and syndicate the news from the contributing reporter/author, And if they are breaking the rules, do you think the algo?s of the search engines would catch 40 k occurrences of the same story? I am sure it would, and if these sites keep breaking the rules they would get penalized. In fact, they would have long been removed from the indexes.
Article directories use the same methods, they post ?Duplicate? articles to their directories from the same authors. And you can find hundreds of the same ?duplicate articles? indexed in the search engines at any time.
Here is a test for you, and I will not show you one of my articles so that I can not be accused of manipulating the results. Go to Free Articles and pick an article, any article (in fact do it on several articles) and copy the title of the article.
Then put that title in quotes like this ?Your Cold Could Be Something More? and paste it in Google and/or Yahoo In Yahoo, here is the search link with the results: “Your Cold Could Be Something More” - Yahoo! Search Results
Take a look. It is showing 1,400 times in Yahoo. Let?s check Google. Here is the search link for Google: ?Your Cold Could Be Something More? - Google Search and it is showing over 400 times in Google.
Now this article was released in 2005. Here is the publish date: Oct 22nd 2005. Now, If the search engines have had 23 months to filter out ?duplicate content? I am sure that at least Google or Yahoo would have removed them from their indexes by now. But they have not.
This is just one article. Do several yourself to see. There are millions of articles out there published on multiple directories and the directories are ok, they have not been punished and they are repeat offenders also by the public standards of Duplicate Content.
Now we will go over what ?duplicate Content? is and why it is in place.
Duplicate content is when you have an exact copy of a site. Page for page, file name for file name, image for image, code for code. And exact replica of a page or site. This was put in place for dynamic page spawners, duplicate websites, and doorway pages that were designed by blackhat seo?s and spammers that are trying to control the natural search results.
Again, I have tested this also. Take an exact copy of a site and try to push up an identical site into the top of the search engines with links. One will be removed from the index, not just one page, but the entire site. And yes, I have done this test 6 times with the same results every time.
Each article directory, Press release site and even the pages that host RSS feeds have different code, images, file names, java scrips and a multitude of other differences that stops them from getting hit by duplicate content.
There is more on a page than your article when a directory publishes your article. Search engines read all of the code, not just your articles text on the page. You do not have to worry about duplicate content with articles or press releases.
Hope this clears some things up! And remember, Hope is not a method? Nor is it a strategy. Study, test and stop buying all of the lies on the net. It is mostly common sense.
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"I have been seeing in a lot of threads the misunderstanding of duplicate content. I am writing this to eliminate the misunderstanding so that fear of something does not effect your online marketing.
I guess the first thing is to cover the assumptions of the masses of what it is, and then show you the reality of it."
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jack thanks by the way for sharing the information....
But i have some different opinion on that...the point you raise is fine the content is duplicate only if the factor you mentioned are there...but also if you are puting it in so many article directory the same content...with the same title and all will also making some diffrence as i have experienced it....while browsing some good article directories such as ezine, articlebase etc...why the fall in traffic is so much on those even they dont have duplicate content on their sites.....
can you please explain this...
But i have some different opinion on that...the point you raise is fine the content is duplicate only if the factor you mentioned are there...but also if you are puting it in so many article directory the same content...with the same title and all will also making some diffrence as i have experienced it....while browsing some good article directories such as ezine, articlebase etc...why the fall in traffic is so much on those even they dont have duplicate content on their sites.....
can you please explain this...
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djbaxter
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This is part ofnthe Google Panda algorithm updates. There are a couple of threads here at 5 Star about this and you can find more by googling "panda update".
This is a interesting outlook on it and it makes sense. But what if you are using the same platform as you mentioned above about one being a blog and one being a site. But I guess one thing that I did not see mentioned in here is that none of the sites that you mentioned are sending links out for people to gain a link.
You can get the answer by adding a few good links to the page with the content in question and see what happens in the serps. That is the easiest and fastest way. It is also the same method that Matt Cutts gave for when Google had "supplemental" results to bring any syndicated version you wanted up top.
Forgot to answer the last part. You are correct, it may not be counted as deceptive or malicious, and this is why news syndication works online. The net is just a big social network to one degree or another.
Forgot to answer the last part. You are correct, it may not be counted as deceptive or malicious, and this is why news syndication works online. The net is just a big social network to one degree or another.
duplicate content won`t work on micro niche websites
duplicate content won`t work on micro niche websites. maybe for larger websites, yes. but for these litle, cash-sucking websites that we build so easily, it will fail.
try making a micro niche website with duplicate content and see the rankings for it. i`ve done it. you could guess the results
duplicate content won`t work on micro niche websites. maybe for larger websites, yes. but for these litle, cash-sucking websites that we build so easily, it will fail.
try making a micro niche website with duplicate content and see the rankings for it. i`ve done it. you could guess the results
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JoshuaJones
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Thank you so much for providing this brief information about misconception about duplicate content.
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