does duplicate content affect SEO?

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Does duplicate content affect seo article submitting an directories i know many warriors send the same articles out to hundreds of sites for backlinking purposes or am i confused an only affecting people that steal content from one site to another.
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  • Duplicate content is only a problem when it's on your own site(s).
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    • sry i dont get it can you explain like if i took it from a popular blog etc. an slapped it on my site?
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    • what if i copied from others?
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  • It hurts you if a copy of it is on another site that Google trusts more than yours. In that case...sorry Charlie...
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    • No that doesn't "hurt" you.

      Duplicate content is only a problem if you have the same content on multiple pages of the same site.

      So if you take an article and post it to

      mydomain.com/page1
      mydomain.com/page2
      mydomain.com/page3

      etc., etc.

      That would be a problem.
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  • I am agree too

    The only thing is if you copy paste content (duplicate)
    that gona push you far from SEO,
    However, try to make your own content.
    Mr. Google Is smart, but He also computer, one the content submited, he will know.
    only if you have more backlink then you may ok for Big Mr google.
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    • To put it simply, duplicate has no penalty whatsoever. With enough backlinks or if your site is authoritative enough, it can still go far.

      However, with the recent algorithmic changes that Google has made, it is said that duplicate content will rank lower than the original content it is taken from. This still means that duplicate content has no negative effect, though

      my 2 cents
  • Answer is here at the matt cutt's recent blog post Algorithm change launched
  • Yes it effects SEO ... we have to give unique content if want good ranking in google ..
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    • Bloody hell man. You people never learn. READ A THREAD BEFORE POSTING WITHIN, and know your facts before offering advice!

      Here's a test for those genuine folks who continually see these ridiculous one liner advice posts and feel confused from their constant contradiction to reason and research...

      Hey webmaster.9839, how about coming back in and showing us some evidence of your findings? What ya think guy? Can or not?

      The Test: there are 3 possible things that could happen now, seeing as I am directly CALLING OUT webmaster.9839 to put his money where his mouth is.
      1. He doesn't come back, because the entire purpose for his post was to drop bad/misinformed info for a post count increase. (strong possibility)
      2. He comes back and starts a flame war - without providing one iota of evidence for his baseless claim. (not likely to happen)
      3. He doesn't come back, ignoring my challenge, because he knows what he posted is patently false. (also possible)
  • I personally never had a problem when I submit one article to hundreds of different sites.

    However there was one site of mine, where I always offered a bonus for a purchase. The site had 7 pages and on every single page I had the same "bonus content" which was a text with approx. 300 words.

    I got sandboxed after 7 months.. Of course I don't know if it really was due to dupe content.. just my experiences
  • The answers on this thread are spot on regarding penalties for dup content on your own domain, and no, if your content is also on other domains, it won't really hurt as long as;

    The article or page of content is not found on TOO MANY domains. So you can check this with the old test..... "put a sentence from the content in quotes like this and search it in Google".

    If there is only a handful of other sites with the same article, you are good to go. But if the same content is found on 50-60, 400-500, it won't do you any good. You won't be penalized for it, but you won't make any money from it (well....not much).

    That is why phrase and word rewriting is so important. Still NEVER as good a 100% unique content, but it works.
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    • Really?

      So what is the magic number then? Is it ok if my article shows up on 7 domains? 12 domains? 16 domains? When does it go from good to bad?

      I'll take my article showing up on 400-500 sites versus only a handful any day.

      Also, if this were true, nobody would want to post their articles to sites like Ezine. You have no control over how many times a webmaster may decide to publish your article.
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  • Yeah. I am dead serious.

    PR is not the end all.

    If you have over 100 3rd party blogs and complete control of the content (and some time advertising), you are managing domains that are laser focused on the niche, AND all of the content on them is not found in more than a hand full of places.

    So use the piece half a dozen times, and move on.

    You don't get as many links perhaps, but they're better links.

    The biggest red herring ever planted in the SEO world is that page rank zero pages don't pass allot of juice.

    Google does not give these big article directory inbounds nearly the same juice as they used to. This is ancient news.
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    does duplicate content affect SEO?

    Does duplicate content affect seo article submitting an directories i know many warriors send the same articles out to hundreds of sites for backlinking purposes or am i confused an only affecting people that steal content from one site to another.