How much of original content is enough for Google

If you want to be successful, then never stop creating original content for others to consume.

Aha, so I should not copy even a single sentence! Good to know. I did not realize that Google's rules are so strict.

You re-wrote the content but left some of it intact? That sounds like laziness to me.

There's nothing wrong with using resources to get information on a subject or a niche, content writers have to do it all the time. However, it's still essential to re-write that content so that it's unique and you don't get slammed by Google.

Duplicate content is duplicate content no matter how much of it you shared or how little of it you use.

Is Google that punctual? If you are to type those exact phrase sentences that you left intact into Google search, you would find the pages that are already indexed with those pieces. It's really not hard for Google to detect duplicate content anymore and there are several services that have been doing it for a while like Copyscape. For about .3c per search, you can see if your writers or employees have copied any of their content.

You would be surprised how many people (or maybe you wouldn't) copy sentences straight from Wikipedia in a few spots hoping the client won't notice. I got that all the time when I hired people for content writing. Not every single writer did it but I've learned my lesson.

Thank You Corey. This is helpful.
There was one topic that I wanted to write about and I am not an expert in it, and I was, yes I was, lazy to rewrite content in my own words. Will know for the next time.

Yes I understand that Steve. I will be uploading new content each week. Once definitely, twice maybe cause I am one man team and my articles are long. And I will be doing this for two blogs. Along with my 9-5 work. So, lots of work is ahead of me.

Bond,

Although your should always strive to be completely original, I would not worry about a couple sentences here and there. Google looks for substantial blocks of content that are similar across domains and not individual sentences.

Further, Google will not automatically slam your site just because there is content on there that is the same as another website unless it is blatant that you are trying to manipulate SERP’s. The biggest problem with duplicate content is that google does not know which page to index if it comes across large amounts of content that are exactly the same. The drawback here is that one page will not get indexed and the other will.

In your scenario (assuming it really is only a sentence or two here and there) you have nothing to worry about. I think people have a lot of misconceptions about how Google views duplicate content.

Here is their policy,

Duplicate content - Webmaster Tools Help

Hope that helps you,

Shawn

Well I thought that Google will not punish me that much because of few sentences in one article. But it is good to know how things work.

Even if Google doesn't drop your site's ranking, you could still receive a DMCA notice from the original publisher. I agree with StingGB's suggestion of reading and writing as you remember it - great concept!

Google absolutely loves unique well-written content...stay away from auto blogs and shortcuts like like and strive for high quality (whether written by yourself or any sort of knowledgeable copywriter)

Good luck to you!

Sheesh, so much talk about pleasing Google. Pleasing them is great, no doubt, but what you should really be asking is... "How much original content is enough for MY READERS?"

Relying on Google as your primary/only source of traffic leads to broken dreams. Instead, work on producing original content for your audience and promote it in other ways. You'll be glad you did.

I think copy writing is fine as long you respect the original source and put their URL backlink

Your thread title asks how much original content for Google.

Well, I have very good reason to believe that it all depends on your links in your original content, or on your site.

Find Kindsvater's posts and download the report in his signature. Google War Report.

It's what they call, an eye-opener?

Just do it. And you'll have your answer.

Thank you people on these guidelines. I am newbie and dont know much how some stuff works.
Some of you have misunderstood me. I am in no way promoting copying or even worse, stealing the content. I am preparing materials for 2 blogs. One of those is my passion and one is my expertise.
The one that is my passion is wide in subject and I cannot be an expert in all of it. So I was writing one article about topic in which I am not an expert. I did some research, found some materials and started to write.
But, yes, I was lazy a bit and I copied few sentences and even one paragraph from another source. And as you can see this is bothering me cause I really want to produce quality content. I really do want to please my audience more than Google, but I dont want to be punished by Google.

When you are rewriting an article from other source, you should fully rewrite it. You should not act as a lazy person to copy some sentences even some paragraph from the sources. Copying is not allowed by google.