Duplicate Content & Google

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If you basically copy articles from ezine, post them on your blog, is this considered duplicate content which google would penalize by down grading your serp ranking?
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  • yes it is consider as duplicate content you should choose unique way or add something new to your content
  • I see SEO experts say all the time that duplicate content is a myth.
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    • I bet you didn't test it yourself!

      Duplicate content is no value to Google, and Google won't show it unless:

      1. You had tons of links to it.
      2. There are no other unique content available yet.

      Please proof me wrong, I like to see SERP with duplicate content that don't meet this 2 conditions.
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    • It is a myth and this has not just been said but proven... Even google itself released a video stating the exact same thing. It was posted here on WF but I think someone removed the thread..

      James
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    • if SEO Experts are saying there's no such thing as duplicate content or it's a myth, then they aint an seo expert.

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  • There have been many threads on this forum about this topic, some of which have contained advice that I believe to be just wrong. Rather than repeat what I have said previously, I suggest that you search Google's own site for "duplicate content" as nothing else is authoritative.

    Or you can just look at: Duplicate content - Webmasters/Site owners Help

    which includes the statement "If you find that another site is duplicating your content by scraping (misappropriating and republishing) it, it's unlikely that this will negatively impact your site's ranking in Google search results pages."
  • Watch this video http://videoforward.com/video.php?video=1719 , engineer from google discuss duplicate content issue.

    And I believe as long as you use the article in different site no problem with that. It only considered duplicate when you use it at the same site. Just my opinion base on the video above
  • I wonder if google is going to try and filter autoblog type sites with the upcoming caffine update
  • Thats Pretty Professional..
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    • And so polite and helpful,too.

      New article marketers don't NEED to know the fine points - they need the basics to get started and the rest they will pick up as they go.

      kay
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  • Kok, with all due respect... I don't need to re-prove anything. I've done and concluded my tests years ago, and those conclusive tests are what I adopt to my SEO techniques to this very day. I have images on my VGTP site of some of the sites that generated me many thousands of hits per day... They were all drawn from conclusive testing that took a while to complete, then adopted into my very own sites.

    What were the tests?

    Basically following google's guidelines and analyzing the top ranked sites in great detail. And working on some of the most powerful onpage seo one can do. Similar to what George Brown was doing that I was doing years before he even got online, but going more deeply at page structure, sentence structure, prominence and proximity of keywords and in-content linking, semantic content linking, etc, etc.
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    • Although I am bias towards your point of view, just would love to do more experiment here!

      People loves to see the result, so do I. Not only we can learn much from each other, any kind of challenge or experiment will help us discover new truth and new things.

      Please reconsider my invitation...

      Kok Choon
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  • I dont need to prove anything to you!
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    • I didn't ask, why do you think you need to prove to me for anything? LOL!
  • 99% chances that you will be caught for copyrighting you'll not get enough performance on search engines , might be you will be penalise for this
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    • I've no idea what are you trying to say? :confused::confused::confused:
  • i am talking about duplicate content on website
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    • If this is the case, you are wrong

      Because there are 2 factors you can rank well with duplicated content, and Google doesn't really care about it until you complaint...

      The 2 factors to rank for duplicated content:

      1. Your keyword for that content has very few related content, so Google will show multiple list even if that is duplicated content.

      2. You have a lot of links to those content, Google trust those links and your contents will show!
  • You know this is a old link and the same thing comes up "Google" yes you need their ranking,however if you are a affiliate marketer they hate those pages,but again there are websites out there with huge backlinks and **** content doing well-
    my point is this-yes duplicate content is bad-but hey,it is all duplicate content written with different words-talk about a dog anal problem-heaps of sites basic same content on what to do-my point is this-
    I have friends that spend $5000 a month on Adwords to make $8000-they have no idea about backlinks or duplicate articles they do not care they make money-
    when I have looked at their google analytic most traffic comes from google and social media like Stumbleupon-duplicate content to me is so common-change from English to french back to English we are still talking about the same thing-the only content that is different is if you blog about what you have eaten today or who you slept with-you want traffic pay for it or wait for ever-
    if you were selling a painting or a car you might put it on Ebay etc,cost you money-can never understand how people think with billions of web sites out there they are going to hit the jackpot-I spend to my budget $200 a month to make $600 still in front-if I did not who will visit my candle making site-zip no one-only my view -Free Traffic in this day and age-cya
  • Hey All, this is my first post ever here in WF.

    I did an experiment on this topic:

    1_ I posted a unique article on a brand new domain
    1.1_ Social Bookmarked it (digg, facebook, twitter, etc.)

    2_ Afterwards, the same day, I posted the same article (with a link referring the first one above) on a sub domain on an older domain (pretty old one, 5 or 6 years old).
    2.2_ Did nothing.

    Results:

    - The second domain (where I published the duplicate content) appears on the first page in google when you search for the keywords on the article.

    - The domain where I published the article first appears on the second page.

    None of them have been penalized.

    I´m not sure whether or not google take in account the first one published, or if there is more weight on the ageness of the domain. Maybe when the new domain becomes older will rank better?

    Cheers, just wanted to share this experiment with you guys.
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    • Figured I would throw in a real life example of an article of mine. Fairly tough competition keyword. I posted an article to my main blog, and then submitted the same exact article to ezinearticles, goarticles, articlesbase, articlesnatch and usfreeads.

      I really have only heavily backlinked the goarticles and articlesbase articles. Each of the other 3 have maybe 10% of the backlinks of the other ones. The only reason that I didn't focus at all on the ezinearticles is that it took 20 days (exactly) to get through the entire approval process with EZA, whereas I was able to start backlinking from day 1 with articliesbase and goarticles.

      Well, when I search for my article in google, the article shows up at around the #12-13 slot in Google US. What's interesting, is about 50% of the time it shows the goarticles copy of the article, and 50% of the time it shows the articlesbase article. It will *never* show the other article in the top 100 (never looked past there). It always picks one or the other.

      Now, if I do a site search like keyword site:articlesbase.com or keyword site:goarticles.com, the respective article always shows up as #1.

      So at least for me, Google will not display the identical articles in its listings. Its clear to me that I'm not penalized for any of this, but there is Google won't show the duplicate content side by side.


  • yep,and there come's google and give a red cardboard
  • Yes and the original author has every right to make you remove the content too. Speaking from personal experience and legal threats.
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    • Not necessarily. When you submit your content to most article directories you're giving anyone the right to use your content on their own sites.

      I have a plugin that takes articles from ArticlesBase by keyword whenever I want. All completely in compliance with their terms of service.
  • Didn't expect to receieve so many responses to this thread, well like someone said before, im going to have to test it out myself. I personally believe from other information i have read that a penalty doesn't exist, because it would take google a long time to process through a **** load of sites to determine if content is duplicated.
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  • Well here's a very unscientific example for you, but I think it's pertinent.

    Aside from being in this silly IM business, I'm also an entertainer. I just googled my name with quotes and came up with 2,210 results. In skimming through them I can see that some are for some guy in England with the same name, but not the majority.

    The summaries displayed are very similar in many cases, three identical ones on the first page alone, and two more on the second page, mainly because they reference a few different agents that I use, all with the same bio, along with my own website.

    I can tell you that there aren't a lot of backlinks there - I wish there were.

    And it's not because the sites are new - I've been performing for over 22 years - long before I had a presence on the internet.

    So how come the same duplicate content shows up so often over these 2,000+ posts? I can only guess that it's because the whole duplicate content thing is a myth.

    I think, that in this case, at least, the Google representatives are telling the truth.

    Think of that! Google telling the truth. Imagine.
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    If you basically copy articles from ezine, post them on your blog, is this considered duplicate content which google would penalize by down grading your serp ranking?