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Duplicate Content Clarification Please

by jzmoore
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At what point should one worry about duplicate content?

The different sources I am speaking of are:

1) "High level" directories such as, Ezine Articles, Go articles, Article Dashboard, Search Warp, etc.

2) "Low Level" directories - the crappy ones in my article submitter

3) My squidoo lens, hubpages account

4) My blog site

Here are my questions:

A) What I am doing now is section (1) articles, I am changing up and not submitting same content to Ezine, Go Articles, and dashboard, etc. Each one is twisted a bit before submitting, should I continue this or am I wasting my time?

B) Everything else, squidoo lens, hubpages, and my blog all get direct copies of my articles posted with no changes. Any thoughts, or am I shooting myself in the foot?

What is protocol to avoid duplicate content penalties? Please add anything important I may have forgotten.

Thanks
#clarification #content #duplicate
  • Profile picture of the author Mrs S
    As far as I understand the duplicate content penalty is a myth. If you post duplicate content across the web then Google is likely to rank one of the pages and put the rest in the supplemental index. Of course different versions of the same article could rank for different keywords.

    I didn't think that Squidoo and Hubs allowed duplicate content though.

    I think if you want all of your content to rank then you should make it unique before posting.
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  • Profile picture of the author johnny_h
    I've also heard that duplicate content is a myth - some say the same as Mrs S & others say that it does make a difference, but that by having each article 25% original you can get around any penalties for duplicate content.

    As far as shooting yourself in the foot, I think it all comes down to how much time you're spending altering your articles before submission. If it's quick & easy for you, why not? If it's taking you hours to get all your articles submitted because you're changing each one, then I think it's in your best interest to deal with possibly not ranking on each article to get more articles posted overall. You'll still get traffic from the directories you're submitting to, even if your article's not on the first couple pages of Google.
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    • Profile picture of the author telesto
      I've also heard the 25% unique number used. I know of a few "experts" that recommend at least 40-50%. I personally try for at least 40% unique for any content that I put out there.

      Not sure if there really is a duplicate content penalty (lots of good arguments both ways), BUT:

      Earlier this month I was doing some research for one of my sites and I came across duplicate content in spots 1, 2, and 3 on a Google search. Some doctor's web page ranked #1, and the #2 and #3 spots on the same search were IDENTICAL copies of the same article from his main site that had been submitted to article directories.

      So...draw your own conclusions from that.

      **edit: I should note that my personal belief is that if there isn't a duplicate content penalty now, there very well may be one in the future. I do a lot of article spinning so my hard work doesn't vanish with an algorithm update from the Big G.
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  • Profile picture of the author sober
    I have heard that if you have same content on two different pages on the SAME site, it is duplicate content .
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  • Profile picture of the author Midas3 Consulting
    * Google doesn't like identical content on the same domain.

    * Google doesn't penalize your rankings if you have the same content linking back to you. AT ALL!!! If it did major news outlets would be penalized for syndication.

    * Google often shows between 1-20 listings of the exact same content, depending on how much trust each of those sites have - the rest it simply dumps into the supplemental index.

    * Opinion differs on the value of the back links from identical content, I think they have very little worth past about 10-20 copies of the same content. And that Google applies a back linking devaluation algo on replicated content. This is why content back linking systems such as SEOLink Vine and almost all others spin the content the link sits in. Others on this forum will tell you a link is a link is a link, you'll have to decide based on your own testing.

    * You should still syndicate identical content anyway irrelevant of back link juice, it carries with it a metric ton of other benefits , one of which is obviously internal traffic from each site.

    * If you're trying to spin content 25% is nothing like enough to be considered unique. not even close.
    - Spinners are so good now you can get 90% without much of a problem at all.
    You should also be manually re-writing sentence and para structure initially with variants before you spin, this gives you truly unique content. Pure syno replacement isn't actually that hard for Google to suss out at all. Other "tells" are articles with an almost exact same word count and simple syno replacement.
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    • Profile picture of the author moneymakingwiz
      Duplicate content is indeed a myth.
      Go to a big news site , grab some sentence from one of the news, copy and paste it between quotes in google.
      Do you see how many results there are?
      Do you know why?
      The internet is all about duplicate content, google being the first one to blame in google news. All the content is being syndicated everywhere, news, youtube videos, lyrics, think about it.

      That being said....
      There is one But and that's duplicate content within your site.
      If you type in google
      site:yoursite.com

      You will get the number of pages google indexed for your sites, but if you go to the last page result you will see that it says "some similar results have been ommitted..."

      This happens because google thinks the pages look the same.
      You don't want google to decide which pages to show and which ones not to show, that's why for example archive and category pages in wordpress blogs should be nofollow, you don't want google to make your single post ommitted and show your archive pages diluting your keyword density right?
      You want to control which pages google shows.
      So, in your site you can use duplicate content just make the links to them no follow this will solve the issue, and no google won't penalize u, it is your site not theirs....
      Hope it helps
      Dana
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