Duplicate Content?

by Marcus Rockey

Posted: 12 years ago 4 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Hi all

Can someone tell me. When people wish to add blog content to your site how do you ensure it is not duplicate and avoid being penalised by Google?

Please help

Marcus

#content #duplicate

mgreener 12 years ago

Hi,

You can use copyscape.com to check and see if and where it is duplicated.
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Lori Kelly 12 years ago

Copyscape is good. You can also google some of the phrases in the content with quotes around it.
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Alexa Smith Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by marcus100

When people wish to add blog content to your site how do you ensure it is not duplicate and avoid being penalised by Google?

You've misunderstood what "duplicate content" is, Marcus.

What you're describing is actually "syndicated content", not "duplicate content" at all.

This little article explains the difference very clearly: Article Marketers - Lay the Duplicate Content Myth To Rest Once and For All | Internet Marketing and Publishing

As you can see, that article also includes some quotations of paragraphs from Google's WebMaster Central Blog, including the immortal line: "Duplicate content doesn’t cause your site to be penalized." (But note, again, that what you're asking about isn't duplicate content anyway).

As Google goes to some lengths to confirm, through a panel of experts at some of its conferences, Google likes syndicated content, appreciates the need for it, and differentiates entirely between syndicated content and duplicate content. This post will interest you: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5273419

And this one might, too: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5286678

I've been doing "guest blogging" on and off for 3 years, now, including on some real authority sites, and their owners/webmasters certainly don't expect what I contribute to be "previously unpublished work".

"Copyscape" is more for people buying articles, to check up that the writers they're employing (typically at prices that raise this possibility) haven't stolen the content sold to them.
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nm5419 12 years ago

You'll have to keep it out of Google's index via the noindex tag, as required here: Duplicate content - Webmaster Tools Help
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