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Duplicated Article question

by Fleki
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Let's say you're building a new website and you need some content on it for the time being. You upload a few landing pages for some products that are probably already posted all over the internet, but it's just until you build your website. Let's say you have a wordpress blog with a few of those temporary pages too.

Will google penalize you for that and how much will it hurt? Also, once you take that content off, what steps need to be taken in order to correct the damage?

Does that mean you should host your salespages on a different website, if they come with pre-written copy?

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  • Profile picture of the author Pete Egeler
    Short answer, NOT if you don't use the same content on your own sites/blogs. Duplicate content refers to website owners that post the same content on their site(s), not on other sites.

    That's why you don't get nailed as "duplicate content" when your articles appear in a number of different directories.

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  • Profile picture of the author NicoleBeckett
    Yes, Google will penalize you. If you are a brand new site that has nothing but duplicate content on it, you can wind up in some pretty hot water. After all, Google wants searchers to have a good "user experience". If you're not offering visitors anything new, or just stuff that's already posted all over the internet, that's not a good "user experience" in Google's eyes.

    Your best bet is to wait to publish your site until it has unique content on it. Even if you do it in stages, that's better than a brand new site that's chock full of duplicate content.
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  • Profile picture of the author Vincenzo Oliva
    The ideal of being "penalized" for duplicate content is a myth. If google recognizes duplicate content they just won't index it, nothing more.
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  • Profile picture of the author babypar
    Even Google has said that they don't penalize duplicate content, but they won't show multiple copies of the same content for a search query, so they pick th emost relevant, probably the first publisher and display that
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    • Profile picture of the author Alex Lehiste
      Duplicate content has been and always will be a natural part of the Web. It's nothing to be afraid of.

      If your site has some dupe content for whatever reason, you don't have to lose sleep every night worrying about the wrath of the Google gods.

      They're not going to shoot lightning bolts at your site from the sky, nor are they going to banish your entire website from ever showing up when someone searches for what you offer.

      The duplicate content probably won't show up in searches, but that's not the same thing as a penalty.
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      • Profile picture of the author tpw
        Originally Posted by Pete Egeler View Post

        Short answer, NOT if you don't use the same content on your own sites/blogs. Duplicate content refers to website owners that post the same content on their site(s), not on other sites.

        That's why you don't get nailed as "duplicate content" when your articles appear in a number of different directories.

        Pete

        I avoided this thread for hours, because I figured the Duplicate Content Penalty proponents would be answering it... I am glad to see good information right in the first post...


        Originally Posted by Vincenzo Oliva View Post

        The ideal of being "penalized" for duplicate content is a myth. If google recognizes duplicate content they just won't index it, nothing more.
        Yes, no penalty...


        Originally Posted by Alex Gorbachev View Post

        Duplicate content has been and always will be a natural part of the Web. It's nothing to be afraid of.

        If your site has some dupe content for whatever reason, you don't have to lose sleep every night worrying about the wrath of the Google gods.

        They're not going to shoot lightning bolts at your site from the sky, nor are they going to banish your entire website from ever showing up when someone searches for what you offer.

        The duplicate content probably won't show up in searches, but that's not the same thing as a penalty.

        Duplicate content cannot be avoided... Think of news sites... It is natural and nothing to be afraid of...

        It is possible to see more than one page in a set of ten results, where the same content is presented in Google... They try to eliminate the dupes, but even they are not very good at eliminating the dupes from their search results...

        At various times, I have had one article appearing in at least 4 listings in the ten results shown at Google... I must admit, Google is getting better at eliminating the dupe listings in their results, but they are still far from perfect...
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