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Does .wordpress sites accept duplicate content

by Farouseh
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Hello Warriors,

I am intending to have multiple .wordpress.com sites to be used solely for backlinking to my main blog.

I am intending to post the same article on all the sites. Will these count as backlinks or is it unallowed to do this?
#accept #content #duplicate #sites #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by Farouseh View Post

    I am intending to have multiple .wordpress.com sites to be used solely for backlinking to my main blog.
    As soon as Wordpress.com see them (eg if a competitor ever reports them), if they think your links to your blog are "for financial/commercial motives", they'll just delete all your blogs. I think you'd be well advised to read the terms of service carefully, before worrying about so-called "duplicate content".
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    • Profile picture of the author schttrj
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      As soon as Wordpress.com see them (eg if a competitor ever reports them), if they think your links to your blog are "for financial/commercial motives", they'll just delete all your blogs. I think you'd be well advised to read the terms of service carefully, before worrying about so-called "duplicate content".
      I didn't know that. Do they really delete your blogs containing duplicate content, even if that content is taken from one of your another blogs?
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by schttrj View Post

        I didn't know that. Do they really delete your blogs containing duplicate content, even if that content is taken from one of your another blogs?
        No! That isn't what I said at all!

        Wordpress.com is for "hobby bloggers". Nothing commercial is allowed there, including backlinks to other monetised sites you own. It has nothing to do with "duplicate content" at all, and everything to do with Wordpress.com's terms of service.
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        • Profile picture of the author schttrj
          Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

          No! That isn't what I said at all!

          Wordpress.com is for "hobby bloggers". Nothing commercial is allowed there, including backlinks to other monetised sites you own. It has nothing to do with "duplicate content" at all, and everything to do with Wordpress.com's terms of service.
          Yep, anything commercial is NOT allowed in WordPress.com sites. Internet is a dynamic field, and changes every moment.
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          • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
            Originally Posted by schttrj View Post

            Yep, anything commercial is NOT allowed in WordPress.com sites. Internet is a dynamic field, and changes every moment.
            The internet may change but the wp.com TOS has been the same from the beginning. Just because one doesn't know about it - that doesn't mean it doesn't exist*.


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            *a certain Bishop Berkeley would, probably, disagree...
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            • Profile picture of the author schttrj
              Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

              The internet may change but the wp.com TOS has been the same from the beginning. Just because one doesn't know about it - that doesn't mean it doesn't exist*.
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              *a certain Bishop Berkeley would, probably, disagree...
              Well, then again, people should be open to learning if they don't know something.

              One of the mentors said, if you don't question, you don't get an answer.

              So, I guess certain WordPress angels would certainly edify the truth upon me, that's why I am here.
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  • Profile picture of the author schttrj
    Well, no it doesn't matter if you post duplicate content in your WordPress hosted blogs. But, if you are using auto-blogging, you might get your account suspended.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    Actually, according to my experience, people ask questions here because they are lazy to read the TOS on websites whose services they are using.

    I am all for learning but I prefer to learn from the source not from misinformed forum posters. The problem with asking questions in a public forum is: unless you spent quite a long time around here you never know whom to believe/trust. On the other hand, there are people that are not able to ask a normal question... which results in having eager members answering to questions that haven't been asked.

    The lessons?
    Always read the TOS
    Never reply with guessed answers
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    • Profile picture of the author schttrj
      Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

      Actually, according to my experience, people ask questions here because they are lazy to read the TOS on websites whose services they are using.

      I am all for learning but I prefer to learn from the source not from misinformed forum posters. The problem with asking questions in a public forum is: unless you spent quite a long time around here you never know whom to believe/trust. On the other hand, there are people that are not able to ask a normal question... which results in having eager members answering to questions that haven't been asked.

      The lessons?
      Always read the TOS
      Never reply with guessed answers
      Yep, thumbs up for that.

      Even I don't believe in guessed replies.

      And one more thing I don't believe in...being rude and when somebody asks me, "What is a blog?", I don't reply, "Go Google it".

      In a public forum, I guess it is always best to share as much as you know to be refuted, argued and disproved by other learned members.

      That's how it works actually.
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    • Profile picture of the author JWatson
      Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

      Actually, according to my experience, people ask questions here because they are lazy to read the TOS on websites whose services they are using.....The lessons?...Always read the TOS


      Yes, exactly. I have a friend who has spent the last few years (part time) creating a community site, sort of a Facebook for a specific demographic. We were talking about some additions he was making, some of which seemed to me likely to violate TOS.

      I told him he needed to read them and it was as though I had asked him to spend 2,000 hours reading the U.S. tax code. It was clear to me by his reaction that it was never going to happen.

      The more I learn the less I understand.
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