Duplicate Content WT...???

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Enter in Google:

If you’re using AdWords or AdSense you must have heard about an emerging practice in the underworld of computing called “click fraud”. But what exactly is click fraud and how is it accomplished?
I found this snippet from a known PLR article on a site which was ranked on page #1 for "make money with adsense".

If you enter this in Google, you get zillions of sites which are NOT in the supplementary index, they all use the same article.

I dont understand why sites which use this PLR article are not in the supp index...i dont understand what the criteria for dupe content for Google is. I would NEVER make a site only from PLR articles - but obviously some articles/subjects never get penalized. Anyone enlighten me?

I really need to to research and dig out my archives with 100.000s of PLR articles and check which ones are used by other sites WITHOUT them being in the supplementary index. There must be a pattern
#content #duplicate
  • Profile picture of the author scottyaks143
    I think duplicate content is just a myth..
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    • Profile picture of the author raviv
      I am looking at google.com SERPS from outside US. So the results may vary if you are looking at it from within US. I put the particular sentence about clickfraud that you have outlined in your post into the Google search box.

      It says 3600 results. But the SERPs come to an end on Page 42. Below that is the following:

      In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 414 already displayed.
      If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.

      There are entries very similar to the 414 already indexed. So a lot of them have been filtered out, esp the duplicate content.

      Clicking on the link repeat the search with omitted results included shows you more results, roughly 73 pages which still comes out to 730 results. The rest have been filtered for dupe content.

      Nowadays, a page from a site must have a minimum Pagerank threshold to be admitted into the index itself. I suppose that the 73 pages of results have reached the PR threshold to be displayed (or atleast the first 42 pages). The rest are scraped stuff and they are conveniently omitted.

      Though Google removed the supplementary index, they do not want to pollute their index with crap content and just completely do away with showing them

      This is the way I would look at this scenario.
      Best
      Raviv

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  • Profile picture of the author crushedit
    You CAN get PLR content indexed, but it takes thousands of backlinks these days. Basically you have to get your PLR to outrank the lowest-ranked PLR that's indexed in Google. Not easy considering thousands of people have these PLR packages and swap them around freely.

    My advice: aggregate snips from articles in your niche you find on Google, spin them out, and submit those through article marketing/link wheel building software platforms. That's the best way to do it these days.

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  • Profile picture of the author ann1986
    they only take action when someone complains
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      If you enter this in Google, you get zillions of sites which are NOT in the supplementary index, they all use the same article.
      Which is something a few of us have said and proven for a long time. There are medical conditions and veterinary sites and other niches as well where a search for a specific term gives first page results with the exact same articles on various top sites.

      As all of the results are on the first page, does "supplemental" really mean what google says? I've not seen it happen often with generic PLR - but it does occur regularly on topics where the information is very specific because it is factual...and facts don't change.

      What I don't understand (honestly) is why people worry about it. We will never understand exactly what google sees or wants - because big G doesn't make everything public. No matter what Cutts or anyone else tells us, there will be exceptions to what we have interpreted as rules.

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