Auto Blogs and duplicate content

There is no "punishment" form Google itself. Google rewards new, unique information, so it will just not positively affect your site.

However, keeping those links intact is CRUCIAL. If you don't then you are not giving the authors any credit for their work.

Yes I agree. The software allows me to link back to the original article - which in my opinion is needed. Thanks for your reply. I will be thankful for more.

umm.. I don't know I think it works? It doesn't really change it very much though...

Alright, let me see if I got this right... so your software has the "option" to link back to the original article??? You should always link back to the original article people, otherwise it's pure theft.

Later edit: where can I find this software? I'd like to know where it takes its content from. I find it weird some people go ahead and buy autoblogging software when there are a bunch of free alternatives outthere?

I think this has already been answered for you so I wont address this.

Are you sure Carty is telling you to use his software to rewrite articles from places like Ezine by translating them from one lanfuage to another and back again...or is he telling you that the function is there so you can use it on PLR and your own articles?

The reason I ask is that even though you are leaving the link back to the original author (which is not only ethical but required) if you are spinning the origianal article somehow this is not allowed, regardless if you leave the link to the author or not.

I don't use this software so I can't comment on how that particular function is being presented for use but make sure you aren't spinning content that is copywrite protected...this is a no no.

There are lots of people making money with duplicate content and having does sites ranking very well.

There is no "penalty" for this: it's syndicated - not duplicated - content.

Having said that, if your site comprises only content taken from elsewhere, that hasn't been rewritten or spun, you'll probably not be ranking too well in the search engines (not Google, anyway), as most of your pages will end up in the supplemental index.

I have one site (which is more or less dormant; I don't work on it) of about 10,000 pages - all but about 2 of which were "pulled" from elsewhere, or posted directly to my site by other people. Well, all that content certainly has helped my site attract some backlinks (and brings in a little bit of traffic), but guess what ...

... all of the good, relevant, high PR backlinks are to the 2 pages I wrote myself, and these are the only 2 pages on the site which individually attract any decent amount of search-traffic.

The rest don't rank for much at all in the main index, because the content already exists on a number of other sites, and those sites have more authority, more backlinks to each individual page, and therefore overtake my site with their rankings.

Don't make the mistake of thinking you're just going to pull in a load of syndicated content and attract masses of search-traffic - because it usually doesn't work that way.

And don't think that if you go down the "translate content to another language and back into English" route, you're going to have anything that resembles a high-quality site capable of sustaining itself and attracting its own backlinks.

Effective, profitable autoblogging isn't all that straightforward.

Let say you are an author who spent considerable time on an article and got it published in ezinearticles. You've got your name and your link on it.

Then someone takes that article, translates it into some languange, and then translates it back. Do you think that article is still going to reflect positively on that author?

Of course not. How many times have you seen translation gibberish?

I would HATE if an article with my name on it was translated back and forth. I put time into articles with my name on them and I wouldn't want them "edited" or changed in any way as that will decrease the quality.

If you take my article, translate it and then retranslate it back, and then take my name off it, well, I'm not sure how I like that either.

Jeff Mulligan

Duplicate content is a critical problem in Auto blogging. But if you manage it in proper way, the risk will be minimized. Think about a popular article, it would be a duplicate one in many news web site. But it indexed well. So optimize your site quality, Backlinks, basic structure and keywords.

The biggest problem with duplicate content is that most people misunderstand it...

What you want to avoid is having the same piece of content on the same site more than once...meaning that piece of content it duplicated on your site.

The other supposed issues with duplicate content and penalties...etc...in most cases aren't true. This is where most people misunderstand what "duplicate content" is.

Ok, so don't use the translator then. Link the original article with its links in tact and also do my own PLR content.

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The thing is, with every translation I will always make the article speak in correct english. Theres no way i'm publishing jibberish to my site. It's an informative site and to a high standard. I want the authors to have a backlink from me too, so they get that.

My site is not just that also, it has amazon and clickbank stuff I do manually, my own PLR and reviews.

Sigh - Duplicate Content is NOT a critical problem in autoblogging. It is a critical problem for Autobloggers because they don't understand what it means.

Autoblogs (good ones) are content aggregators and pull in the best content (including articles) on niche topics, giving ALL credit where credit is due. There is no need for translation that is sure to just piss off the original authors of said content because you have now butchered their masterpieces and made them illegible - while keeping their resource box intact.

Duplicate Content - the kind that will get you slapped - refers to using the same content throughout the same site. There are plugins you can grab to check for this if you think you may have this issue.

Hi Trish, what's a reliable plugin to remove duplicate content?

Is it simply if you, say post the same article twice, or does it go deeper than that? Because I googled wordpress duplicate content and it came up with all these code alteration things that are way over my head...

My advice would be to forget the translator. For PLR simply rewrite it. Takes a little more time but makes it readable and more unique. For articles from directories, publish them as is, all links intact.