Google and "unique" pages?

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I heard that from 2008 onwards, Google started to crack down hard on any sites that "mimic" other sites.

So lets say a website does a huge review on lets say (making this up now) "Magic Shoes" that are supposedly more comfortable than any other shoe... now, what if there is already a site with a "review" on it and you just copy wholesale the entire page of say a thousand word review?

Before 2008 you were fine doing this (from what I read) but after 2008, forget it, Google will actually deliberately make sure your page ranks LOW.

So to get around this I read some people are translating the text into another language, then back into English, to make the words seem different... this to me is just really lazy for a start and all you will end up with by doing this is a web page full of complete gibberish.

So, I approached it differently - if you have a good knowledge of English and meanings, its really easy to do.

EXAMPLE:

I am promoting the Tesla Secret book, and of course found a "review" (the affiliate's own what else lol) here are the first 2 paragraphs of the page:

I know if I just copy this text, Google might rank my page lower than it would be if I never even put this text on my page at all? I don't want to take that risk, so check out this... where I changed most words but kept the review exactly what it is meant to be - a coherent review...

If you read the first one then the second and keep flicking from one to the other you can see the two are similar but most keywords are changed around.

Is doing this enough to "fool" Google?

Most will say "buy the ebook and write a review that really is all your own work" but I can't, I haven't even got that much money to my name right now let alone have it spare to spend on stuff like this. :p

I just wondered if there is a better way to get around the Google thing where they penalize for pages that mimic other pages.

Strictly speaking, I am doing exactly that, but is it different enough to make Google think it is good content as opposed to copying? Come on, there is only so much Google can do, they can only be so strict before they would be taking down perfectly legitimate pages.
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  • It's amazing what you can do with a good knowledge of Engliah and meanings.
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    • If you are wondering if your content is unique enough by simply changing around a couple of words or using synonyms here and there: no, it's not enough.

      However, I still have quite a few properties ranking highly with either crap content, spun content, 100% dupe content and no content at all. Not sure how the results are going to be after their latest anti-spam update but so far I haven't seen any drops yet. Just try it out, if it doesn't work you can always come in back later, edit the page and replace the dupe by a unique review.
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  • It's all about external links - they'll show your site even if it's a copy, but it needs to respected by other sites - even if artificially
  • Thats actually exactly what happens. Google will sandbox duplicate content on different sites, but in reality Google has no way of knowing who posted the original content, so the more trusted site normally wins out.

    To avoid the sandbox, its no longer enough just to spin synonyms. Google has recently added an algo that allows it to account for several variables including:

    sentence synonymity
    paragragh / sentence length
    paragragh / sentence count
    word count
    header tags

    The answer? When you are spinning articles or rewriting them by hand, you must make sure to also vary the length of the paragraphs, the number of paragraphs, the number of sentences, the meaning of sentences, and the types of header tags used on the page. Most good spinner software support this type of work.

    This technique has gotten me a lot of stuff well indexed and ranked.
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  • I don't think every article on the web can be unique. Our average vocabulary consist of just a few hundred words at most in all of our life. When you write something about a product or service there can only be so many words used to describe it, before it gets repeated again. Else every time you use a quotation, your site would go to the bottom as duplicate content.

    The marketing is the one that brings it to the top. The most or best marketed gets to the top the least and worst marketed gets to the "sandbox".

    I think Google's algo is more of a myth than practicality. Of course they filter and screen but they only have so much room for manipulating the search results.
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    Google and "unique" pages?

    I heard that from 2008 onwards, Google started to crack down hard on any sites that "mimic" other sites. So lets say a website does a huge review on lets say (making this up now) "Magic Shoes" that are supposedly more comfortable than any other shoe... now, what if there is already a site with a "review" on it and you just copy wholesale the entire page of say a thousand word review?