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Duplicate Content

by bigcat1967
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If you submit articles...
I know that Google will slap you (or worse) if you have duplicate content on say like Web 2.0 properties, Article Submission Sites, etc. However, I see news content with the same article posted by different news sites by the dozens. So why don't they get slapped?

So, does Google really slap you for duplicate content? If so, then why don't these news sites get slapped for having duplicate articles?
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  • Profile picture of the author Joseph Corner
    Hi, my name is Jose Rincon and I am new here. Please tell me how do you know when Google slap you. I just started sending articles to several companies and I am worried about that. Thanks in advance.
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    • Profile picture of the author Cristian Lungu
      Originally Posted by teamworks View Post

      Hi, my name is Jose Rincon and I am new here. Please tell me how do you know when Google slap you. I just started sending articles to several companies and I am worried about that. Thanks in advance.
      Jose Rincon
      I hope you meant Google slaping your webpage, right?
      Here's how you tell.
      1. Type in your URL with "www" (without h t t p : //
      2. Type in your URL without "www" (without h t t p : //)
      If the results in the browser bar are different, yes, Google is penalizing your website.

      But I doubt you are penalized... Google penalizes you if you post duplicated content on your website and not on different ones (except if Google finds out you're the owner of these websites - by IP or hosting servers).
      Produce quality content and avoid uploading it more then once on your sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author Money Bomb
    Originally Posted by bigcat1967 View Post

    If you submit articles...
    I know that Google will slap you (or worse) if you have duplicate content on say like Web 2.0 properties, Article Submission Sites, etc. However, I see news content with the same article posted by different news sites by the dozens. So why don't they get slapped?

    So, does Google really slap you for duplicate content? If so, then why don't these news sites get slapped for having duplicate articles?
    You don't really get a slap, a slight penalty that is scalable would be proper. And the penalty doesn't occur if websites share content. You get the penalty if the same domain (possibly same IP) has the duplicate content.

    If two differing sources have the same content - the first one to be indexed gets the most love. The other one still gets some credit however.
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  • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
    <sigh>

    Have you missed all the long and exhaustive previous discussions on this topic?
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  • Profile picture of the author xbokcom
    If you are scare of duplicate content spun your content. It means you take one article and make it 20 with the same content.

    It will help you prevent duplicate content.
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  • Profile picture of the author keenstyle1
    I worked for a company that made websites relating to autos. A car dealership in Washington copy pasted entire pages and applied it to their website. Google De-indexed the site and sent a message to the dealership. They pleaded, corrected the pages and they were back up, that's my only experience with duplicated content.
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    • Profile picture of the author Rhett
      Originally Posted by keenstyle1 View Post

      I worked for a company that made websites relating to autos. A car dealership in Washington copy pasted entire pages and applied it to their website. Google De-indexed the site and sent a message to the dealership. They pleaded, corrected the pages and they were back up, that's my only experience with duplicated content.
      This example sounds like a copyright infringement issue, and not necessarily duplicate content. While it is not Google's responsibility to enforce copyright laws, I think as a business they have a responsibility not to "promote" (via SERPs or what have you) sites/individuals/business which do infringe on copyright laws. Granted, this is all logical speculation on my part, with no proof.

      As to the original question, no, the whole duplicate content concept (as described here)is a myth that has been disproven time and time again by long time Warriors such as RichJerks. Use the search tool and you will find the threads.
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