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Duplicant content

by stephanreek
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hey guys,

How unique does an article or ebook need to be? The think is I was writing a book and when I checked it on duplicate content It was a pretty high match... So to be sure I wanted to know how much "duplicate" content an article or ebook is allowed to have. Because of course you sometimes use the same words or sentences which might result in a bit of duplicate content right?
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Levanduski
    Somewhere around 0% unique should be fine for articles, depending on what you're doing with them. Article syndication (copying the article exactly from one place to another, with credit given and permission received) is a common practice which is beneficial to everyone involved.

    An eBook may be different. you have to worry about copyrights and things like that.
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    • Profile picture of the author stephanreek
      Originally Posted by Michael Levanduski View Post

      Somewhere around 0% unique should be fine for articles, depending on what you're doing with them. Article syndication (copying the article exactly from one place to another, with credit given and permission received) is a common practice which is beneficial to everyone involved.

      An eBook may be different. you have to worry about copyrights and things like that.
      Yeah that's what I thought but 0% is practically unreachable right? And well what I was writing now was for an ebook on amazon. I don't think anyone will claim that I violated there copyright, however I think amazon might be the problem with this..
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      • Profile picture of the author onlineinternetbiz
        Originally Posted by stephanreek View Post

        Yeah that's what I thought but 0% is practically unreachable right? And well what I was writing now was for an ebook on amazon. I don't think anyone will claim that I violated there copyright, however I think amazon might be the problem with this..
        What are you using to measure your duplicate content. I use premium copyscape and nothing of mine is ever found. If it returns results, I fix them. (unless I am quoting someone)
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        • Profile picture of the author stephanreek
          Originally Posted by onlineinternetbiz View Post

          What are you using to measure your duplicate content. I use premium copyscape and nothing of mine is ever found. If it returns results, I fix them. (unless I am quoting someone)
          I am using copyscape to.. only not the premium
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  • Profile picture of the author onlineinternetbiz
    I don't know anybody can officially answer this, unfortunately. You want to get as unique as possible. I usually target very very low, but I create my own content. On the other hand a lot of duplicate content still ranks, and I am not sure that duplicate content is automatically filtered out. I tend to believe that Google is much more sophisticated than that. I think that spun content that doesn't pass grammar checks and such is filtered out much more at a high level than duplicate.

    Just to make my point:

    Taking some content and putting it on your blog and citing the source and adding your own commentary. That isn't going to be super unique, but you are not going to not rank for it. It's actually a strategy most bloggers that are anybody use and recommend.

    Hope that helps!
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve B
    Stephan,

    There is no set standard that I am aware of which mandates that a certain percentage needs to be unique.

    The best solution is to make the content totally unique and original. Then if a few percentage points are seen as duplicate it won't mean a thing.

    When you think about it, there is duplicate content all over the Internet with press releases, news items, article syndication, curation, shared blog posts, videos that appear on multiple sites, etc.

    The important point is . . . what is the purpose of the content? do you have the legal right to use it? are you passing it off as original? are you deceiving your viewers into thinking it's original when it's not?

    The best to you,

    Steve
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    • Profile picture of the author stephanreek
      Originally Posted by Steve B View Post

      Stephan,

      There is no set standard that I am aware of which mandates that a certain percentage needs to be unique.

      The best solution is to make the content totally unique and original. Then if a few percentage points are seen as duplicate it won't mean a thing.

      When you think about it, there is duplicate content all over the Internet with press releases, news items, article syndication, curation, shared blog posts, videos that appear on multiple sites, etc.

      The important point is . . . what is the purpose of the content? do you have the legal right to use it? are you passing it off as original? are you deceiving your viewers into thinking it's original when it's not?

      The best to you,

      Steve
      Well, I was writing it as an ebook for amazon.. However I wrote it myself so I don't really get how I got a high percentage but oke thank you
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