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Duplicate content question. Need advice.

by Oeshy
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Hey guys.

I started up a new website recently called Fight Live Share.

Fight Live Share | Muay Thai training blogs and everything MMA

Basically covers Muay Thai / MMA training abroad.

My goal is to cover my own blog, along with publishing blogs from other people I meet. This will give the website diverse content at a consistent rate as the issue with this subject matter is 99% of bloggers only travel and train a couple months a year overseas.

Now here is the problem.

I have a friend that wrote a really good blog about his travel and training 2 years ago on a forum. He has given me permission to publish his blog and story on my website.

Is this a good or bad idea? Will this negatively affect my websites SEO performance? Would Google just see the duplicate content and then punish my site?

The content is really good and would be very popular with my demographic. However I do not want to get my website exiled from the search engines.

Advice? Cheers.
#advice #content #duplicate #question
  • Profile picture of the author andrej
    Definitely avoid any duplicate content on your website. It can harm your website.

    If you wanted to publish that article on your website, first make sure it is removed from other websites.
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    • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
      No andrej, I'm sorry, but that isn't correct at all.

      The same content on one single domain is considered duplicate content.

      When the same piece is found across multiple domains, that is considered syndicated content.

      If the OP did publish his friends piece on his own site, he would be syndicating that content and wouldn't be guilty of duplicate content at all.

      Perhaps it may benefit you to do a forum search on syndication and find some great information from Alexa, myob and John McCabe, etc.

      Or perhaps Alexa will find this post and post some links for you as she most generally, generously does.

      Terra

      Edit: See? Here she is!
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by andrej View Post

    Definitely avoid any duplicate content on your website. It can harm your website.
    If you wanted to publish that article on your website, first make sure it is removed from other websites.
    This isn't right at all!

    Originally Posted by Oeshy View Post

    I have a friend that wrote a really good blog about his travel and training 2 years ago on a forum. He has given me permission to publish his blog and story on my website.

    Is this a good or bad idea?
    That isn't duplicate content. It's "syndicated content".

    The differences between the two are explained in this post and this little article.

    Originally Posted by Oeshy View Post

    Will this negatively affect my websites SEO performance?
    No.

    Originally Posted by Oeshy View Post

    Would Google just see the duplicate content and then punish my site?
    There's no duplicate content to see. Google would see the syndicated content and not penalize your site. (If there were penalties for that sort of content, most of the world's leading news and sports websites would be looking pretty silly).

    You may not gain from it in SEO terms, but you certainly won't be penalized for it!

    Seriously, reading the two posts linked to just above will inform you about this subject.
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  • Profile picture of the author Oeshy
    So I should be fine then? Sweet.

    Thanks for the replies. I will check those links too.
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