Does backlink juice last from duplicate content?

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I came across this interesting article: Duplicate Content Penalty - How to Lose Google Ranking Fast.

One comment there says: "In fact, if you submit an article to 100 directories, and it is published on them all, you will get credit for 100 links to start with. That will then gradually decrease, theoretically to one after a few months, but if you submit one each week, you will receive more links than are lost, and gradually build up a good PageRank and Google listing irrespective of 'duplicate content'."

Is this true? I mean it would make sense if google de-indexes a lot of the dupe content after a while (which is not penalizing) but question is if the backlinks get discounted then too? Isn't it possible that as long as google can crawl pages (vs actually indexing them) it will recognize and count the backlinks of these pages?

Another example: Having several social profiles across web 2.0 with the same bio text and backlinks. Obsviously google would see dupe content after a while and probably only index a portion of these profiles. But will it still accumulate/maintain the backlink juice from each single profile?
#backlink #content #duplicate #juice
  • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
    Can you search the forum ???

    Duplicate Content Penalty is a Myth .. Matter fact and yes I said FACT!!! Like it or not... Duplicate Content does not exist at all!!! It's called syndication and it has been done for many years even before the internet was released in the public.

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  • Profile picture of the author FlashDriveDT
    Why be so friendly, TheRichJerksNet?

    The issue is not if duplicate content penalty exists or not, the issue is if backlink juice gets counted by google as long as it crawls a page/article vs actually indexing it. The reason why it doesn't index it could be manifold...?

    The fact is that for some reason quite a few of my profiles don't get indexed. As I don't use any black hat methods and vary the links/anchor text, my only remaining guess is that the non-indexing is due to the similar nature of each profile. Hence google finds some of them insignificant. Does anyone experience the same or has any insight? Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
    My point is the answer is already posted here... Over and over...

    But this is the comment I just made on that so-called blog post.

    There is no duplicate content penalty at all.. This is a proven fact! I am sorry but having articles on many sites is called syndication and it does not hurt your ranking at all, matter fact it increases your ranking and no you do not lose your rank slowly.
    I wish people would stop spreading this myth around, it is really old...


    I have proven many many times over and so has many others that you can actually dominate google with the same articles posted on many different sites. You can also take up several places in the top position using your same content on the same site.


    James
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