SEO and duplicate content

by xento
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Does anyone else believe that duplicate content can add quality to a site? Suppose you make a site on a specific subject and want to add as much quality as possible for your visitors, then you could research only the best quality content on the subject (articles, photos, videos, etc.) so your visitors are happy because they do not have to do all that research themselves. Then, they are more likely to bookmark your site and share it since they know it's a big hub of information rather than a "5 articles" website.

I'm not concerned about ranking the duplicate content here, but whether having pages on your domain with duplicate content can lower your chance to rank the other pages of the same website with original unique content?

From what I read it's hard to tell. I have seen people claim that any dupe content on your site will penalize every page of your site while others say that it increases the size of your site and helps you become an authority site.

What do you think?
#content #duplicate #seo
  • Profile picture of the author xhuggiescouponx
    Do not use the duplicate content on your site for your internal linking structure. Although you can run the articles section in your website to let website up to date.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      That answer above is just jibberish spam.

      It won't lower anything. There is some "penalty" for
      duplicate content, but that's not what they refer to.

      But when I say it won't lower anything, it won't make
      for a good experience, as you are just providing the
      same stuff as elsewhere. Not helping and hurting are
      two different things.

      HOWEVER,
      If you have your site set up to be a unique experience,
      that gives value to your visitor, then there is no
      reason why it can't be ranked (if that's possible in
      the first place) for a stand alone site.

      Lyric and porn sites do this stuff all the time And they
      rank, get high PR, etc. Many higher than the original
      page. Blogs do this as well.

      Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeTheBuilder
    It won't really hurt as long as it's your own to begin with and has been published from the exact domain. However, keep it original content.
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    • Profile picture of the author nelio26
      Originally Posted by MikeTheBuilder View Post

      It won't really hurt as long as it's your own to begin with and has been published from the exact domain. However, keep it original content.
      I agree with MikeTheBuilder. Lets say you place a unique piece of content on your site and it gets ranked. You start getting traffic and people like your content, so they decide to copy it and share it on their own site. Is this your fault? Will Google penalize you? Nope! You can not control this, its just the nature of the internet.

      Hope that helps!
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  • hey,
    There is always a risk of getting caught by using duplicate content and the site may be banned.
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    • Profile picture of the author mkjohn
      Hi guys duplicate content is very harmful for a website in search engine optimization. Duplicate content is the cause of penalizing of a website by search engine. So, i suggest you to go for unique and relevant content.
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      • Profile picture of the author albert110
        Duplicate content

        Duplicate content . i.e. content that is verbatim the same or very similar to content found on other sites or other pages of your site - is one of the worst things that you can put on your site. Search engines penalize for duplicate content, so use the Similar Page Checker tool to see if you have content that is very similar to other pages online. For more details about what duplicate content is, read the Duplicate Content Filter article.
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    • Profile picture of the author Focused Action
      Originally Posted by transcriptionservices View Post

      hey,
      There is always a risk of getting caught by using duplicate content and the site may be banned.
      Who would catch you? The Duplicate Content Police?

      This statement is just 100% not correct.
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  • Profile picture of the author ashleysmith12
    hi
    duplicate content does not add quality instead of the quality it can spoil the ranking .
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  • Profile picture of the author ddDonPaul
    Originally Posted by xento View Post

    Does anyone else believe that duplicate content can add quality to a site? Suppose you make a site on a specific subject and want to add as much quality as possible for your visitors, then you could research only the best quality content on the subject (articles, photos, videos, etc.) so your visitors are happy because they do not have to do all that research themselves. Then, they are more likely to bookmark your site and share it since they know it's a big hub of information rather than a "5 articles" website.

    I'm not concerned about ranking the duplicate content here, but whether having pages on your domain with duplicate content can lower your chance to rank the other pages of the same website with original unique content?

    From what I read it's hard to tell. I have seen people claim that any dupe content on your site will penalize every page of your site while others say that it increases the size of your site and helps you become an authority site.

    What do you think?
    you can`t rank a page with duplicate content. google just won`t put it in the first page...
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  • Profile picture of the author samual james
    After panda update if you try to add duplicate content on your site then your site can penalized by search engine in terms of ranking. Add unique content if you try to make an authoritative websites
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  • Profile picture of the author digitalmarketing
    don't use duplicate content in SEO other wise Google back your site and Google not cache your site many reason are hear for your site demotion
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  • Profile picture of the author Dele
    This may enlighten you more on the way Google views and treats duplicate content.

    ==> Duplicate Content
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  • Profile picture of the author C Rebecca
    Google simply filters URLs from search results with duplicate content. But you can acoid this by linking to the real source of information with due credit.

    Also, it would be good if you could rephrase the text by keeping the information intact.

    And, they say, there is no penalty ofr duplicate content but its very difficult to rank with duplicate content.
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  • Profile picture of the author samfinance
    Not use duplicate content , google watching all your web activity . its not good for your site .
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  • Profile picture of the author revolutionweb
    Content is the king of SEO. google always importance unique content. Duplicate content is the cause of penalizing of a website by search engine.
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  • Hi guys,

    Search engines will rarely show multiple, duplicate Para of content are compulsory to choose which are most likely to the best.
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