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Google's Policy on Duplicate Content

by zannix
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Hello, I have a question - what is the EXACT google's policy about duplicate content? If I submit one article to about 5-6 article directories, with a dofollow backlink, will it affect my ranking differently than if I were to submit a different article to each one of the article directories??

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  • Profile picture of the author PLR Basket
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by zannix View Post

    If I submit one article to about 5-6 article directories, with a dofollow backlink, will it affect my ranking differently than if I were to submit a different article to each one of the article directories??
    No; it won't affect the ranking of the site linked to in the articles' resource-boxes differently at all.

    The quality of a backlink on a specific page in an article directory isn't altered by changing the content of the article to which it's attached.

    You're asking about "duplicate content", but that isn't really what you need to know about, to find out what you actually want to know.

    Originally Posted by zannix View Post

    Help me out!
    This thread explains the difference between duplicate content and syndicated content.
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  • Profile picture of the author Wildnettechnologies
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    • Profile picture of the author jack jastin
      Originally Posted by Wildnettechnologies View Post

      I don't know what is exactly Google Penalty for duplicate content.

      If Google will penalize for any thing it means Page Ranking for your website will suddenly drop and the position on SERP will be affected by this.
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  • Profile picture of the author thebitbotdotcom
    It is noteworthy to point out though, that Google specifically mentions to link back to the original article...when syndicating content.
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    • Profile picture of the author webber1
      Originally Posted by thebitbotdotcom View Post

      It is noteworthy to point out though, that Google specifically mentions to link back to the original article...when syndicating content.
      You can include a Meta source tag to do this btw
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  • Profile picture of the author muftdagyan
    No it will not effect you.
    You can post your article to as many article directories as you wish.
    But don't put duplicate content on your site.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Originally Posted by muftdagyan View Post

      No it will not effect you.
      You can post your article to as many article directories as you wish.
      But don't put duplicate content on your site.
      That makes no sense.

      Google does not penalize for duplicate content. What they
      penalize for is doing things to manipulate search engines.

      Putting duplicate content on your site does not mean you
      are manipulating search engines. Google gives a complete
      explanation of this in the link above. If anyone would just read.

      So let's highlight:

      Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely match other content or are appreciably similar. Mostly, this is not deceptive in origin.

      Google no longer recommends blocking crawler access to duplicate content on your website, whether with a robots.txt file or other methods. If search engines can't crawl pages with duplicate content, they can't automatically detect that these URLs point to the same content and will therefore effectively have to treat them as separate, unique pages.

      Duplicate content on a site is not grounds for action on that site unless it appears that the intent of the duplicate content is to be deceptive and manipulate search engine results. If your site suffers from duplicate content issues, and you don't follow the advice listed above, we do a good job of choosing a version of the content to show in our search results.
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  • Profile picture of the author rising_sun
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    of course you can. This is the good technique for judgment your article.
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  • Profile picture of the author rising_sun
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    Hey brother you could submit same article on different directories. No problem.
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    • Profile picture of the author jack jastin
      In my opinion, being a SEO, As I am doing for my clients, Submitting the same article in different directories will not be counted as a duplicate content until unless you are not going to submit the same article in same directory. So just cool, Need not to worry about it.
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      • Profile picture of the author arttse
        If you submit the same article to 20 different directories it's very likely google will only list one of those articles in the SERP's. However, if you spin the article into 19 different versions and submit it to 20 different directories it's likely that google will list all 20 articles in the SERP's.

        Nobody (except google) knows which option of the two is better from an SEO perspective.

        IMO, I believe the latter option is better from an SEO perspective.
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      • Profile picture of the author animesh
        Originally Posted by jack jastin View Post

        In my opinion, being a SEO, As I am doing for my clients, Submitting the same article in different directories will not be counted as a duplicate content until unless you are not going to submit the same article in same directory. So just cool, Need not to worry about it.
        I have heard that Google do not index duplicate content and if found same content on diff site then it may not index all of them and so your link may not be followed.. here seems to have a problem.
        But if you submit diff. content ( or better spinned) then it have better chance to get indexed all the content and so the link to your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author crismanaon
    You can submit same article in many article directory, you will not penalized by Google search engine.
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    • Profile picture of the author aminwasu
      You may not get the benefit from all the directories but it would not penalize you. When you submit to a major directory a lot of people take that content and post on their small directories. You can not control that so how can you get penalized for that.
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  • Profile picture of the author crismanaon
    You can use same content in many article directory, you will not ban by Google search engine.
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  • Profile picture of the author markowe
    Example: I have an IDENTICAL article (not spun) published to over 200 (two HUNDRED) article directories, all copies indexed by Google. The article backlinks to my site, and has not done it any harm.

    But I am glad the so-called duplicate (actually, syndicated) content myth looks set to persist - just keep on spinnin' people, I've got some writing to do...
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  • Profile picture of the author Gerald Arno
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    If you are putting up duplicate content on your website for example
    that is already published on a different website, your content won´t
    appear in the search engine.

    Multiple syndicated content from article directories doesn´t harm
    your rankings, but it gives you backlink juice. Even if you can´t rank
    for these articles, you will get backlinks in return.
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  • Profile picture of the author samual james
    hi , you can submit your article to various article directory, you will not banned by Google
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