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How Unique is Unique Enough?

by PaulintheSticks
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Most of my articles come back between 80-90% unique when checked with smallseotools.com plagarism checker.

Am I safe? Is there a recommended percentage of unique content for an article to be safe from a G penalty?

Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan Curtis
    When I mentioned this thread to my wife she said, "What a weird society we are in. What happened to being proud of your production?" I agree.

    Whatever I write on my site or anywhere is just as unique as this response. It doesn't matter if it comes out 100% or 0% on a "plagiarism checker" because I wrote it. So I never check.

    In any event, it is hard for me to imagine what you could gain by from any content about which you yourself have questions. There is no scarcity of content on the internet. Neither Google nor any readers will expend any time or attention for anything that is not first rate.
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  • Profile picture of the author PaulintheSticks
    Why did you waste your breath? It was a simple question and has nothing to do with your response.
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    • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
      Originally Posted by PaulintheSticks View Post

      Why did you waste your breath? It was a simple question and has nothing to do with your response.
      Technically, he didn't waste any breath as he was typing with his fingers. I'm going to guess by your response, the only thing he wasted was your time, in your opinion? :p

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  • Profile picture of the author Exfilius
    If it makes you feel any better: Google is capable of distinguishing whether 2 articles are on the same topic or not. Even if you move the words around and use synonyms.
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  • Profile picture of the author gatorx
    You should be fine. It is that even something which you wrote by yourself is likely to contain the same set of words/phrases found in some other content. If Google was to penalize for this, then a great proportion of innocent content would be a victim for sure.
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  • Profile picture of the author internalsoul
    Originally Posted by PaulintheSticks View Post

    Most of my articles come back between 80-90% unique when checked with smallseotools.com plagarism checker.

    Am I safe? Is there a recommended percentage of unique content for an article to be safe from a G penalty?

    Thanks.
    Mate, Dan is right. When you write the articles by yourself, you need not to check whether its plagarism free or not.As long as your article is written by you and not copied from other places, you need not to worry about google and its penalty. TBH, the only recommended percentage of uniqueness which is considered safe from any kind of G penalty is 100%, and it simply means write the content all by yourself and dont copy it. For example, if you wrote one article and your article might have 1 one or two sentence similar(just very common ones) to some other blog posts and plagarism checker might return you less uniqueness, so that doesn't mean your article isn't unique. So think logically and you will get all your answers by yourself. Be less dependent on tools as every tool has his own limitations.
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    • Profile picture of the author Teravel
      Originally Posted by internalsoul View Post

      ...you need to worry about google and its penalty. TBH, the only recommended percentage of uniqueness which is considered safe from any kind of G penalty is 100%...
      I'm sorry if this offends you, but this is just stupid thinking. Why would you worry at all what a Non-Intelligent Business Entity thinks? Google is in the business to make money. They make money when their ads are clicked or they are paid for their services. It's people like you that drive their business because your so focused on Google, that you don't see the PEOPLE that want to give you their money. STOP GIVING YOUR MONEY TO GOOGLE!!!

      @Paul,

      Since no one here has bothered to ask, do you Outsource your content?
      If you write the content yourself, and it isn't just cut/paste research notes, then your worrying for no reason. Don't worry about what search engines think. Worry about what your readers think. If you don't please them, your business won't succeed.

      Pleasing Google doesn't really get you anywhere, other than splitting the profits with someone that only put more in your way than helped... Why follow their rules when it isn't their game in the first place. Avoid Google, and go directly to your customers. Their on Social Networks, Forums, Classifieds and so many OTHER places that aren't Google. Bring your business to Them, instead of trying to get Google to do it for you. It's less work for higher rewards.
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      • Profile picture of the author PaulintheSticks
        Originally Posted by Teravel View Post

        Since no one here has bothered to ask, do you Outsource your content?
        I write about half of it myself and the other half is high end plr that I personally rewrite. Its all very good quality content when I get done with it so I know my readers will be happy but I've gone back and forth on the issue of using even rewritten plr.

        But at this point my budget won't allow me to spend even $10 per article and I probably only have enough knowledge in my niche to write maybe 50 of the 100 articles I want so buying and rewriting the plr seemed a good compromise.
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      • Profile picture of the author internalsoul
        Originally Posted by Teravel View Post

        I'm sorry if this offends you, but this is just stupid thinking. Why would you worry at all what a Non-Intelligent Business Entity thinks? Google is in the business to make money. They make money when their ads are clicked or they are paid for their services. It's people like you that drive their business because your so focused on Google, that you don't see the PEOPLE that want to give you their money. STOP GIVING YOUR MONEY TO GOOGLE!!!
        First of all, it was a typo error, which i have edited it back. Simple "not" skipped that line. Sorry about that. Secondly, i am not offended as i haven't said anything wrong and you quoted me based on my sentence which was having a mild mistake as i skipped one word and that made all the difference. I hope its fine now. Lastly my point was that, when you have written your own unique content and not copied from elsewhere then you need not to worry about google duplicate content. We all know how google runs its business and you have to rely on google at some point whether its organic traffic from google searches or making money with them. You simply cant ignore them.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      You may use common slang phrases or word groups typically used in articles - you might have dates or known facts such as team names or event dates.

      As long you write it yourself - don't worry about it.
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  • Profile picture of the author run
    Why would most people hate search engine (Google) that bad.

    It's true that do not put our business rely entirely on Google, but why don't you take a little time to check if the content are unique or not? Even if it's not for Google sake but for readers sake and our sake.
    Because, if the content are originally published elsewhere, it does not matter if the readers not found out, but they will lost their confident if we took the content from elsewhere and claim ours.
    Therefore, not only they lost confident with us, we're also lost the readers/visitors/clients/customers, too.

    One more thing, we do not rely on Google, but it's a bonus for our online business. Even if you're too lazy to depend or configure to adapt the crazy animals update of Google, you'll notice that from time to time the long tail organic guests will visit our site from Serch Engine such as Google and others.

    Yet, it won't if we against it and not adapt ourselves with them. They put us in a sandbox and no bonus at all. Targeted bonus will come from time to time even we don't care to build any links or SEO.

    Therefore, I see that some contents that you write yourself; there's no need to check with plagarism tools. Another contents that you rewrite from PLR (%95); you should take sometimes to check about duplication.
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    • Profile picture of the author Teravel
      Originally Posted by run View Post

      Because, if the content are originally published elsewhere, it does not matter if the readers not found out, but they will lost their confident if we took the content from elsewhere and claim ours.
      So, when CNN talks about a recent event, and Fox talks about the same information, they lose confidence in their listeners? That's amazing!

      Someone needs to let the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Boston Herald, and many other major newspapers that they are losing confidence in their readers!

      Or maybe their just spreading the information, knowing their readers will buy tomorrows issue to see what other information they will share.

      I think you should look up the term Syndication.

      Point of Note: No one has said anything about republishing someones content without first making changes, except you. (and now me with my response)
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      • Profile picture of the author run
        Originally Posted by Teravel View Post

        So, when CNN talks about a recent event, and Fox talks about the same information, they lose confidence in their listeners? That's amazing!

        Someone needs to let the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Boston Herald, and many other major newspapers that they are losing confidence in their readers!

        Or maybe their just spreading the information, knowing their readers will buy tomorrows issue to see what other information they will share.
        I know you already know about Syndication below yourself.

        Originally Posted by Teravel View Post

        I think you should look up the term Syndication.
        I think you should look at my last phrase that you've quoted me.

        Originally Posted by Teravel View Post

        Point of Note: No one has said anything about republishing someones content without first making changes, except you. (and now me with my response)
        I was not, too. But, I just make my thought on OP rewrote some article from PLRs http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post8226852 and at which percentage that consider safe with Google count as duplication.
        I think you should follow OP thought beside coming out and accuse someone for their thought instead.

        P.S: OP ask for uniqueness of the article that he wants to publish.

        You should read my whole post to understand my meaning. I'm not talking outside the area of OP concern at all. Maybe, I'm not a native English Speaker that's why I can't express clearly my thought with words (English) that leads to misconception.

        I'm not talking about content syndication that's in Google Machine Eyes.
        Search Engine could already judge about content syndication not duplication.
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  • Profile picture of the author Teravel
    We all know how google runs its business and you have to rely on google at some point whether its organic traffic from google searches or making money with them. You simply cant ignore them.
    I don't rely on Google in any part of my business. In fact, less than 0.1% of my traffic comes from search engines. Why would I want to put my business in front of random people that Google shits out, when I can use that time to put my business in front of paying customers.

    I Ignore Google and You Should Too!

    Why?

    Less Work.
    More Traffic.
    Higher Conversions.
    More Return Buyers.

    TBH, the only recommended percentage of uniqueness which is considered safe from any kind of G penalty is 100%
    Seriously... Who cares about Google's rules. They aren't in charge of the internet. They never have been, they never will be. Unless YOU let them...

    But at this point my budget won't allow me to spend even $10 per article and I probably only have enough knowledge in my niche to write maybe 50 of the 100 articles I want
    I wouldn't spend $10 on an article. Re-writing PLR seems boring, and what happens when the PLR isn't on the topic you were intending?

    I think your time would be better spent joining a Forum and Social Group in your niche, and talking with people. Find out what their problems are, and find solutions that you can provide them (on your site of course).

    Not only are the Forums and Social Groups great for research, you can get loads of TARGETED TRAFFIC. Plus, if the information is what they were looking for, their going to spread the word for you. Oh look... More Targeted Traffic without the "Almighty Google".
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