Is the "duplicate content myth" still a myth?
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However, the last couple of months I've lost some rankings and they all seem to be for dupe content pages (that is content that's duplicated on other domains, not internally). Only one of my original content pages has disappeared, but I think that's Google dancing because I've been dropping some pretty heavy backlinks on it.
My sites as a whole have obviously not been affected (in that the presence of dupe content with dropped rankings hasn't negatively impacted my original content pages), and this further reinforces the fact that Google ranks *pages* and not *sites*.
Any thoughts? Has anybody with sites containing a mixture of original and dupe content seen a similar pattern?
I'm thinking that I might do an audit of dupe pages that were previously performing well and put together some original content for them instead. Hopefully rankings will return, plus it would be a solid indication of the effect of original vs duplicate content...
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NastyBlast -
Thanks
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