Does having duplicate content in a page you don't want to rank affect ranking of the site ?

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Hi everybody
I'm building backlinks to my homepage and i added content in another pages in the site but it's duplicate content

does having duplicate content in this page will affect ranking of the homepage or any other page in the site i want to rank ?

Thanks in advance
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  • Profile picture of the author kt1000
    yes, it`s very important to don`t have duplicated content and has big meaning on your`s serts results...so better change it
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    • Profile picture of the author mahmoud747
      Originally Posted by kt1000 View Post

      yes, it`s very important to don`t have duplicated content and has big meaning on your`s serts results...so better change it
      Even if this duplicate content in a page that i don't want to rank ?
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        Originally Posted by mahmoud747 View Post

        Even if this duplicate content in a page that i don't want to rank ?
        Google does not look at pages and try to figure out which "you want to rank" and which "you don't want to rank". They are all the same. Unless you are blocking the search engines from seeing the page, it will most likely be indexed eventually.

        When you say duplicate content, you mean that you have the exact same content on another page of your site, right?

        You are not talking about content you scraped from another source?
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  • Profile picture of the author mahmoud747
    It's content i copied from another source
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    • Profile picture of the author NovaPagina
      You definitely shouldn't do that but if your interested in ranking it you can just set up robots. to not crawl that page and should solve it.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by mahmoud747 View Post

      It's content i copied from another source
      That's not duplicate content then.

      Duplicate content is when you put the same content multiple times on the same domain.
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      • Profile picture of the author mahmoud747
        Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

        That's not duplicate content then.

        Duplicate content is when you put the same content multiple times on the same domain.
        so this won't affect ranking of my site ?
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        • Profile picture of the author lalitbansal004
          Yes it is Duplicate Content. Because If the Resource From Where You Copied is already Indexed in google Then Google Count this as a Duplicate Content.

          So this is Not good For Your Website.

          Thanks.
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          • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
            Originally Posted by lalitbansal004 View Post

            Yes it is Duplicate Content. Because If the Resource From Where You Copied is already Indexed in google Then Google Count this as a Duplicate Content.

            So this is Not good For Your Website.

            Thanks.
            You are completely wrong.

            If you were right, then every news agency's website would get hammered by Google. The all publish the same articles from the associated press every single day.

            Duplicate content is putting the same content repeatedly on one domain.
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  • Profile picture of the author LakiPolitis
    lalibansal's right, Mike. Google tries to figure out who is the original author. The little guy suffers, Google Killed the Content Farms, But Didn't Kill Corporate Content Farming, because we can't pay for the big bucks. Anyways. If you want to de-dupe your site without losing pages

    [ META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX" /]

    or use canonical links

    [ link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish" /]

    If you don't de-dupe, Google Panda will pound you like your a young bamboo sapling.
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