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Google Loves Music More Than Your Content

by kelseydeshaz
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Being that duplicate content is one of the things people worry about when trying to avoid the slap or karate chop in the neck by our friends at Google... I wanted to address or should I say get some closure on something I heard on a webinar, dealing with duplicate content.


What was said.... " Duplicate content is a myth, if you don`t believe me, search for song lyrics"

I thought "wow, this makes sense"... so I went to Google and typed in lyrics and the first suggestion was Christmas Song Lyrics, so I browsed through and sure enough, these lyrics are the same unless you go to You tube and find remixed versions which doesn`t count for this discussion.

So I asked a couple of business partners about this and one response was..." maybe Google algorithm is designed to accept only song lyrics as duplicate content." (by the way he believes in duplicate content)

So I would like to open the floor to someone who can answer this and also shed more light on the duplicate content fact or fiction gossip floating around the internet.

I`m sure people who write articles, post blog post, or even deal with PLR could benefit greatly from these insights.
#content #google #loves #music
  • Profile picture of the author WebPen
    I don't know- there have got to be tens of thousands of songs out there (if not more, right?)

    So for Google to have a built-in filter just for song lyrics seems extreme to me.

    Then again, I don't believe in duplicate content- try posting something on your blog for a few weeks, then get it posted on wikipedia or a very high PR blog- I dont think your blog will win :-)
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    • Profile picture of the author kelseydeshaz
      Originally Posted by AYoungMillionaire View Post

      I don't know- there have got to be tens of thousands of songs out there (if not more, right?)

      So for Google to have a built-in filter just for song lyrics seems extreme to me.

      Then again, I don't believe in duplicate content- try posting something on your blog for a few weeks, then get it posted on wikipedia or a very high PR blog- I don't think your blog will win :-)
      my point exactly I never believed in dupe content getting slapped or sand boxed... but a lot of people do that is why I want to hear more thoughts on the song lyric example.
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  • Profile picture of the author kelseydeshaz
    Originally Posted by gbarrows31 View Post

    So turn your dup. Content into a song and your off the races with fresh Dup. Content that google accepts :O) Just a thought

    La La La... Singing myself to the bank..
    funny stuff ...good one
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    • Profile picture of the author Dzierba
      Building in a filter for only song lyrics doesn't seem extreme at all. For all the algorithm changes they make, how hard can it be to set up a part of the system that sees if the word lyrics appears a few times on the page. With all the times the word lyrics is mentioned, plus the anchor text of the links to each song page, I'm sure Google can tell the difference between articles, and lyrics.

      I would have to say that Google does have a part of the algorithm that recognizes if a page is song lyrics or not.
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  • Profile picture of the author FredJones
    It could simply be the backlink profile plus the average duration of stay on page per visitor for the page to rank well (I mean the ones that rank better than others in spite of the same content).

    It could be the on-page factors also.

    I don't know whether it is simple to detect duplicate songs because you need to go deep into "speech processing" for that which is difficult, but the rest of the page plus the backlinks can be analyzed to rank them still. And probably the rest of it is syndication.
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    • Profile picture of the author Ben Armstrong
      I don't believe in duplicate content penalties but it would make sense that Google would award a higher level of love to the original source.

      Of course this would be just one of a number of factors that come into play... on page SEO, off page SEO, Domain PR, on page PR etc. So just because your page has the orignal article it doesn't mean it's going to rank higher than a page with the same article on it.

      There just seems to be so much misinformation and confusion that stems from the use of the term penalty.

      If google kicks your arse off the rankings then IMO that is a penalty. If google doesn't give your page the same amount of weighting it gives to the page with the original copy of the content, that's not a penalty. It's just rewarding original content.

      SEO would be so much easier to understand if people stopped throwing around terms that don't make any sense in the context they're using them in.
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      • Profile picture of the author JR Consulting
        Duplicate content is a myth the way most people explain it. Google only penalizes duplicate content on the SAME site.

        Song lyrics is one example showing that they don't penalize duplicate content on different sites, as are syndicated news articles. In theory, the original source should rank higher, but that's not always the case.
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve L
    Originally Posted by gbarrows31 View Post

    I'm for real turn articles into mp3's for like podcast and even put on your blog.. why not..
    and submit to podcast directories! yes!
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