Why Duplicat Content Fears Don't Make Sense

Hi The Expert,

Thank you for your post. I've always found the whole duplicate content issue confusing too but never really got a chance to check it out till now. I came across an article the other day, not sure where, and it explained something similar to that you just said.

One thing I remember vividly about it goes like this, like you said, if your articles get dupplicated over and over, Google crawlers have a way of telling which one is the original one. They'll pick that up and discard the rest when a search is made for the KWs. One thing I'm not sure about though is if this is right and how the penalty works - that's if it exists.

I'm a little curious to see what others have to say about this...

Thanks

Anyone know for sure if the links that come from pages in the supplemental index (i.e. mainly ones that Google views as duplicate content) carry the same weight as ones in the main index?

I'd have thought not as it would make sense for Google to reward fresh, original content, though I have no basis for this apart from that it is what I would do if I were Google.

I'm not saying that links in the supplemental index don't count at all, just that they don't carry the same weighting.

Thoughts?

I agree. However, I use many duplicate content to boost my search engine ranking and it seems OK. But please note that I only post to 10 places, so I only got 10 dup. I am very sure that the articles will never republished by someone elses, so perhaps that what make everything go smoothly.

Bottom line, in my opinion, duplicate content wont hurt your site if used correctly.

It will but not high impact. For instance, I resubmit an approval articles at EA to web 20 property sites, and in 5-7 days i can see a jump of rank in google. But not to first page of Google.

I try to very careful about this and I saw that 10 dup is fine so I stick on it.

Duplicate content is inevitable in the modern internet. Just look at all the press releases, blog posts etc. syndicated all over the place. If you use content that can be found on another site, just make sure your title is unique. It's mainly the title that kills your rankings if it's duplicate content.

I am glad this debate came up because. I submit to about 20 directories, but use an article spinner software and have been wondering if it actually does help. It takes almost as long to spin the article as it does to write one.

The one Area I could see changing is title that way hopefully your article gets picked up in a wider range of search terms. So I will probably stop spinning the articles and see if i notice any drastic change. If i notice something worth mentioning i will repost here. Thanks for you guys insight.

What I mean is, I posted the same articles to web 20 properties and articles sites, that all 10 places. I have never had problem with that though.

Sometimes i did this to get my site indexed faster, and these articles, which is will be duplicate content did it good. It never hurt my site though.

Ok... here's how it works. This not an opinion based on assumption, it's based on fact derived from experimentation, which many don't bother.


If you post the same article, lets say 100 of them, once they are all indexed, if you type in the name of the unique title, or a passage / sentence or at least 8 or so words from the sentence encased in quotation marks, you'll get about 14-16 that will show up in the results. On the next page (page 2 of the results), you'll get this italicized message that says something or another in regards to that google found more results based on your search query and only included those it thought was close enough to your search term.

Now a back link is a back link, but each back link has a relevancy score, this score is reduced each time a new document is found to be the same that contains the same link.

Only one of these duplicate articles will rank at any one time, this article on which site ranks highest will change from time to time, one day it could be ezine articles ranking highest for your article, another day, week, or month it could be goarticles, etc.

Google will determine the relevancy factor on many attributes, goarticles may score higher than ezines, or article dashboard, and visa versa, or a site that is mainly driven around that niche that contains your article.

Your ranking for that phrase you hyperlinked in each article, will change as these articles you duplicated to all these sources, will change as well.

So in essense, you're wasting your time, since only one of these articles will show up at any one time.

You're better off re-writing the article so it's at least 70-100% unique.
Structuring the article in such a way that the main keyword phrase is used in a number of combination's. If you can rank for these articles all at the same time on the first page, then your ranking for the main phase you're going after, will remain stable. It wont fluctuate as much, if at all this way.

Right, that's basically what I said... but what he doesn't tell you is that the score for that link is reduced. So if you want the highest score for each link, then it needs to be unique content.

if you use the right tools, 30-60 seconds you can create 1000 articles and have these blasted out over a course of a week or two weeks or over a period of a month (recommended), every other hour or so, you'll see much better results this way, and even better results if you link back to the published articles cos if they rank higher, so will you.

From my experience, Google only indexes one version of duplicate content it finds. So if you're writing articles purely for linkbuilding purposes then this is a bad thing. In this case, I'd use an article spinner to avoid this.

If you're writing articles to promote something, or hope it gets picked up by oher publishers then there's no need to spin.

Hi Expert
I think this will not be great issue for penalty. Google or Other search engine always indexed according to uniqueness of your Meta tag keyword based content. When ever you or anyone else taking theme that's not a crime I think. But if someone directly taking the content his/her moral duty would be to take permission as well as give a trace back link to original author writing.
Take care
Nailzer