What is Duplicate Content???

airraid81 · Share | #1 (**permalink**) 12-18-2007, 04:49 PM

My question is just will posting a single article (out of 100's) from your blog elsewhere actually hurt your SERPs?

There are many sites that build their business model around duplicate content. Well, I'm really just talking about BlogCritics. But, anyway, they encourage you to post on their site then post on your own site. So, if you have higher PR and post the article on your own site first, you really won't get hurt, will you?

swapw · #2 (**permalink**) 12-19-2007, 04:04 AM

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Originally Posted by airraid81

My question is just will posting a single article (out of 100's) from your blog elsewhere actually hurt your SERPs?

There are many sites that build their business model around duplicate content. Well, I'm really just talking about BlogCritics. But, anyway, they encourage you to post on their site then post on your own site. So, if you have higher PR and post the article on your own site first, you really won't get hurt, will you?

The amount of SERP is determined by how many people that will link to you. The higher the amount of people that link to you, the higher the SERP is unless it is completely abused. In another words, if you get for example 1000 links in one day all from the same story that will certainly hurt you instead of helping you from Google's standpoint since it signals a potential spam.

I would suggest spinning the article if you're scared.

-Swapw

Jonathan_Hue · #3 (**permalink**) 12-19-2007, 04:23 AM

Yes SERPs definately get hurt as there is a possibility your article (posted on some other site) may out-rank your site.

Well you need to get your article posted, indexed and ranked "first" and then get it submitted or posted on others.

airraid81 · #4 (**permalink**) 12-19-2007, 10:00 AM

Well, I have like 200 posts (though I usually only post my duplicate content on lower ranking blogs), but if I did get penalized, would it hurt my entire blog, or just the individual post page of the offending article?

mariuskl · #5 (**permalink**) 12-20-2007, 12:32 AM

Well, if they will found your articles is possible to be penalized

websavvy · #6 (**permalink**) 12-20-2007, 03:12 AM

If you must post the same article to your blog and other article directories , you should first post the article to your blog and then to the article directories. If I were you, I'd rather reformat the article if not rewrite it.

rembrant · #7 (**permalink**) 12-20-2007, 07:44 AM

That is good idea, changing a bit on the title or the first paragraph would make a difference already.

Cars-blog · #8 (**permalink**) 12-20-2007, 07:55 AM

According to Matt Cutts, usually there's no penalty for duplicate content, but Google will only show one of the duplicate content pages that it thinks is the most relevant in the SERPs.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...e-content.html

Pinkfly · #9 (**permalink**) 12-21-2007, 07:31 AM

it's true that there's no penalty for duplicate content, but search engine will stop indexing your content.So it's better to create unique content..

rembrant · #10 (**permalink**) 12-23-2007, 12:24 PM

Will the search engine bots know what is the original article from the copied one? There are sites that copy identical articles, I'm not sure if they have permission from the writer or not but how how does search engine handle such things?

xeonkar007 · #11 (**permalink**) 12-24-2007, 10:34 PM

unique content as much as possible,

tdd1984 · #12 (**permalink**) 12-25-2007, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by xeonkar007

unique content as much as possible,

Unique Content as much as possible? LOL I hope your not referring that to duplicate content.

Duplicate Content is referring to when someone duplicates your content off your website.

xeonkar007 · #13 (**permalink**) 12-25-2007, 05:20 PM

he he tdd1984,

i was referring that one should copy from other blogs or sites and post them on their sites....

i know i just said it too short...
no worries..
merry christmas..
take care

Pinkfly · #14 (**permalink**) 12-27-2007, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by rembrant

how does search engine handle such things?

search engine robot crawls a website, reads every pages, and stores the information in its database. Then, it compares its findings to other information in its database. depending upon some factors like overall relevancy score of a website, it then determines which are duplicate content, and then filters out the pages or the websites that qualify as spam. Unfortunately, if your pages are not spam, but have enough similar content, they may still be considered as spam.

rembrant · #15 (**permalink**) 12-28-2007, 11:22 AM

Wow, that means search engine bots are real editors, might be even better than human editors. So there will be no difference even if a writer changes the title or the first paragraph of the article because SE bots will have to read the whole article, right?

xiaomaster · #16 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 12:47 AM

Hi,
"Duplicate Content" means 1 site have some pages with same content or 2 sites have some pages with same content?

dotservant.com · #17 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 01:31 AM

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Originally Posted by xiaomaster

Hi,
"Duplicate Content" means 1 site have some pages with same content or 2 sites have some pages with same content?

Yes, that meas when search engines see a same piece content when visiting different URLs, this flags up the 'duplicate content' signal.