Reusing the same content in many posts (good or bad for SEO)?

by marcus23

Posted: 5 years ago 23 replies

What is your view on reusing the same content in many articles on your own website if the content is relevant to many articles?

Say that you create one article about "How to run a race in New York" and then you create another article about "How to run a race on Boston" (and more articles for other cities). Most of the content that these articles need is not specific to the city, and could therefore be used in both articles (around 90-95% of the articles could be kept the same). Is it then fine to reuse the same content in both articles, or does the content need to be reworded for Google to rank it well?

I think many instinctively would say that it's better to reword the articles to get as much "unique content" as possible on the website. However, from a user perspective this rewording does not add any value. The question is, is Google smart enough to understand this and rank the articles just as well even if I do not reword to articles? Google has also claimed that there is no such thing as duplicate content on the same website.

Does anyone have real experience with reusing content, and if so, how did it go? Have you seen any case studies on the subject?

#bad #content #good #posts #reusing #seo

dave_hermansen 5 years ago

Actually, it seems that "from a user's perspective", adding a city name doesn't create any value at all.

We use blocks of the same content on many product pages but we've never created pages specifically for any given city (which is understandable for a product based eCommerce website).

It probably won't hurt you SEO-wise but it definitely won't help, either.

Finally, Google has never said that there is no such thing as duplicate content on the same website. Of course there is! What they HAVE said is that there is no such thing as a "duplicate content penalty" whether on the same or even from another website. The "duplicate content penalty" is a myth that goes all the way back to the early Panda days.
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- LilyMunday 4 years ago
  
  I think you've nailed the point Dave with Google. It might not Jack up at duplication but if the reader is checking out lots of articles on your website they will soon notice, get bored and click away. Not good.
  
  I think your original idea to reword will serve it better in the long run.
  
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Originally Posted by marcus23

Does anyone have real experience with reusing content, and if so, how did it go? Have you seen any case studies on the subject?

As long as your articles are having proper attributions,
you can publish them in thousands places without fear,
as an author to be punished.

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Frank Donovan

5 years ago

Originally Posted by marcus23

I think many instinctively would say that it's better to reword the articles to get as much "unique content" as possible on the website. However, from a user perspective this rewording does not add any value. The question is, is Google smart enough to understand this and rank the articles just as well even if I do not reword to articles?

Users don't care about the amount of unique content on a site if it's irrelevant to them. If a resident of Boston searched for "How to run a race in Boston" and found your article at the top of the SERPs for that term, it's served its purpose.

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nancypearl987 5 years ago

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- fastreplies 5 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by nancypearl987
  
  So don't use same content always try to post new and unique content. Thanks!
  
  Are you sure you're from Canada?
  Reason I'm asking because you're definitely having problems reading posts,
  specifically this one https://www.warriorforum.com/search-...l#post11636120
  
  If you believe that other posters has been wrong, then care to debate
  their opinions by offering your based on some facts objections. Can you?
  
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Jamell 5 years ago

You will get penalized for using duplicate content. Google does not penalize you for upgrading existing content as far as I know.

There are many ways to repurpose content and get traffic without getting penalized .

You can make an ebook or pdf .

Another way is by using excerpts of your content on slides s d charts.I hope that was helpful.
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- Oskar Osborne 4 years ago
  
  People always say this but do you have any recent proof?
  I've seen lots of content being reused without penalty?!?
  
  I have reused blocks of content many times without penalty...I think Google is still fundamentally a page based system so as long as the "pages" are different you should be fine!
  
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Medon 5 years ago

I think what is important is the message you are passing to the audience. The reworing may not be necessary. Just change the city name and you will be good to go.
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Travis26 5 years ago

Reusing the same content in many articles is not a good idea. Always try to post unique content because it will help you to gain organic traffic.
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- DABK 5 years ago
  
  Nope. Unique content does not get you any organic traffic. Good SEO gets you organic traffic.
  
  Originally Posted by Travis26
  
  Reusing the same content in many articles is not a good idea. Always try to post unique content because it will help you to gain organic traffic.
  
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Sidra Jafri 5 years ago

Google does not like it and has given instruction on reusing the same content a lot on your website. some content needs to be the same on different pages, that's an exception, however, you can not just copy-paste all the content on each page, try rephrasing even if you're writing about the same thing.
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marcus23 4 years ago

Around half of the replies say that it's fine to reuse content without re-wording it in several articles if it makes sense to the users, while the other half of replies say that this isn't fine.

However, to me it seems like almost everyone is "guessing" based on what they know about SEO. Is there anyone who has actually tried this and have real experience with it? Or at least can point to a case study of someone who has tried it?
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- LilyMunday 4 years ago
  
  I guess no one really knows! Google is mysterious we are mere mortals.
  
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saman afzal 4 years ago

if you use same content several of times then you might end up ranking with both content for the same and it is obviously not good.
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Jackson Ville

4 years ago

This is not good for the website, your atre posting the same thing again and again it bothers the google bot and it penelise your domain

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4 years ago

Originally Posted by Travis26

Reusing the same content in many articles is not a good idea. Always try to post unique content because it will help you to gain organic traffic.

Originally Posted by saman afzal

if you use same content several of times then you might end up ranking with both content for the same and it is obviously not good.

Originally Posted by LilyMunday

I think you've nailed the point Dave with Google. It might not Jack up at duplication but if the reader is checking out lots of articles on your website they will soon notice, get bored and click away. Not good.

Originally Posted by Jackson Ville

This is not good for the website, your atre posting the same thing again and again it bothers the google bot and it penelise your domain

Is any of you can provide coherent reason and to justify why you think so?

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Jackson Ville

4 years ago

when you are posting same content in every post and your title is different or topic is different, then how will google decide to opt the right one to show in results? to whom bots would rank in SERPs?

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4 years ago

Originally Posted by Jackson Ville

Google will try to match results to what it believes is coherent to request.
Lately it doesn't matter what visitors are looking for and uses keywords as
general direction to what you might want to find but based SERP on your
location in a first place and not on site's titles.

And, bots don't rank SERP, Algo does.

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Naheed 4 years ago

As per my view, it is not good to post the same content again and again because it may not be directly penalized but each duplicate page is competing with the other. Google may cant decide which one to rank and may rant the one which you do not prefer.
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Somdatta Mukherjee 4 years ago

I think it's a good site to make interlinking two or more pages by writing the same article.
As long as your articles are having proper attributions, terms, keywords
you can publish them in many places
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Kay King

4 years ago

However, to me it seems like almost everyone is "guessing" based on what they know about SEO. Is there anyone who has actually tried this and have real experience with it? Or at least can point to a case study of someone who has tried it?

You would be wrong - there are at least three people answering (and maybe more) that are ANSWERING you.

Look up the people answering and decide for yourself who to listen to. Go the the SEO section and read through some threads there.

This is not a help desk to give specific answers on demand - it's a forum and not everyone has the same experience or knowledge. Members take their time to answer - and you have to decide which answers suit you.

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4 years ago

Originally Posted by Kay King

This is not a help desk to give specific answers on demand - it's a forum and not everyone has the same experience or knowledge. Members take their time to answer - and you have to decide which answers suit you.

Well put

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sonjoy459 4 years ago

They don't understand it, otherwise they can give the same answer in different posts?
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