Duplicate Content

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Hi,
I've just realized, that I did a very stupid mistake. While building up my blog a few years ago, I have linked to Wikipedia and pasted some content on my page. Before you start calling me names, let me explain, that my intention was only to show on this example to my readers, what kind of nonsense is been published on the net, even on a site like Wikipedia. My idea was certainly not to make use of this duplicate content. I've realized only today, after searching manually in the serps, that my page is nowhere, even pages with no keywords of my page are showing up, that there must be something wrong and only now, after years, I've realized that this must be called duplicate content by Google. Ups! I've corrected my mistake, took the bloody link out and changed the content accordingly. Now, please advice, shall I sit quietly and wait, till Google will forgive me or shall I rip off the site, may be with a 301? And how long approximate it will take before I shall receive mercy?
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Leatherman
#search engine optimization #contenet #duplicate
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    You only did half the work. You still need links to rank the page, either strong/followed internal or external links.
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    • Ok, but what about my punishment? How long will it take and after my correction you feel keeping the site intact should be safe?
      Thanks
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  • Google is not too harsh about duplicate content so said matt from Google.... They understand some duplicate content will happen and is sometimes a good thing... As long as not too much of the page is duplicated, with some heavy revisions its should be forgiven quickly enough. They did say it would take more then a simple few changes to get a duplicate content page back in rankings.
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    Again, there's nothing for Google to forgive.

    Supplemental SERPs is controlled by the webmaster, copy content + weak SEO & you'll get buried in the SERPs (Supplemental SERPs).

    When you're ready to rank a page, stop copying content or at least have better/stronger SEO than other domains/pages.

    It's very simple.

    BTW, there's legit reasons for some types of copied content, example, Public Domain content.
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    • the consequence copying is ban
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  • Duplicate content is always punishing and unethical according to google eyes.
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      99.99% of everything Google shows on the SERPs is scraped content. Google doesn't create much original content compared to what's shown on the SERPs.

      Sure, we'll call it punishable & unethical.
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      The daily fiverr gig link blast...

      Somebody lost a $5 bet on fiverr.
  • ctually, Google does not penalize for duplicate content, at least not in the sense of 'inocent' dup. content. Duplicate content is a natural occurance within the www. Search engines attempt to supply users with information they query and they have an elaborate filtering system in place to pass by the dup. content. Sites that have greater popularity are preferred over sites - with the same content - that have less popularity. The penalties are for those sites that try to manipulate search engines.
  • You need to create quality content an share on daily basis for website promotion.
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    Duplicate Content

    Hi, I've just realized, that I did a very stupid mistake. While building up my blog a few years ago, I have linked to Wikipedia and pasted some content on my page. Before you start calling me names, let me explain, that my intention was only to show on this example to my readers, what kind of nonsense is been published on the net, even on a site like Wikipedia. My idea was certainly not to make use of this duplicate content. I've realized only today, after searching manually in the serps, that my page is nowhere, even pages with no keywords of my page are showing up, that there must be something wrong and only now, after years, I've realized that this must be called duplicate content by Google. Ups! I've corrected my mistake, took the bloody link out and changed the content accordingly. Now, please advice, shall I sit quietly and wait, till Google will forgive me or shall I rip off the site, may be with a 301? And how long approximate it will take before I shall receive mercy? Thanks