Duplicate content question

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-Chris

It's a HUGELY debated topic, and if you ask 50 people, you might get 50 different answers. My opinion is to always publish your unique content on your site first. Then if you want to submit it somewhere, you can rephrase it or write it in a different point of view. I tend to err on the side of unique content than on spun content just to be safe and help me sleep better. :rolleyes:

As per my view the content of your article and site should be different because when people read your article and through the link they come to your site and find the same content then visitor does not get anything new and they just left your site.

Actually, those that claim duplicate content only exists on the same domain are those that proclaim to be writers, in a feeble attempt to make their efforts seem more valuable. Often, these people either have or have had links in their sigs promoting their writing services.

The truth is, there is a duplicate content FILTER, which these folks never mention. I wonder why? It amazes me how these people always bring up there isn't a doop penalty, but fail to mention anything about a doop filter. People that read these posts have a right to know about the filter, without the writers always omitting this fact.

And this duplicate content FILTER works across domains, despite these folks pretending that duplicate content only exists on the same domain. If duplicate content truly only meant on the same domain, why would Google's duplicate content filter filter the results across multiple domains?

Plus, their info is rather dated and there seems to be some evidence that sites with a lot of duplicate content are in fact being penalized. There was a time when Google merely filtered doop content. But it seems that after Panda, sites with a high percentage of doop content and little unique content of their own may be taking a site-wide hit in their rankings.

This could explain why both Hubpages and EzineArticles were both hit by Panda, but Hubpages is coming back, while it looks like EZA is still declining in traffic.

While in the past there hasn't been a doop penalty, things can and do change. Plus, just because there wasn't/isn't a doop penalty doesn't mean there isn't an "original bonus".

For those that insist that Google is OK with doop results, why don't they end their articles the same way:

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I'm sure if it's good for Google to list the very same article over and over, it's good for your readers as well.

Do not post content from your website to spammy article directories. Keep content on your site unique. You can write other content for submitting in article directories but remember to keep them unique. You can submit the same article with some revisions to 5-10 article directories but not more than that.

This one will help you man.

Duplicate Content, The Myth Drags On, And On And On! - Modtalk

Kurt was right, duplicate content filter do exists.

I have heard many views about this subject. I personally have an official copy on my site, then any articles I publish will be a brief re-write or a topic talking about a different product or steering somewhat clear from the products I am selling.

Not sure why I do this though lol.

So you keep saying.

...you're so original in the way you're trying to drum up interest. I'm sure no one here has ever experienced your incredible selling powers.

:rolleyes:

Hi Heath, all you really need to know is in this post from yesterday, also mentioned above.

But it's also very neatly explained (including a quotation direct from Google's "WebMaster Central Blog" - you're not going to get a more authoritative source than that!) in this little article from expert marketer Anne Pottinger: Article Marketers - Lay the Duplicate Content Myth To Rest Once and For All | Internet Marketing and Publishing

And you can see, from all the posts like this one, not only that Google differentiates syndicated content (across domains) from duplicate content (within one domain), but that they go to quite some lengths to clarify this to people, too: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5273419

No, definitely not.

It won't count as duplicate content because it won't be duplicate content. It'll be syndicated content. They're two different things.

What you're asking about above is actually the fundamental underlying business model of "article marketing", from which so many of us here have been making our livings and building our businesses for so long (and without having any "duplicate content" issues!).

This post explains how it works: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5035794

And this post, if it's of interest, explains how article directories work: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

It is confusing.

Nobody was born knowing all this stuff.

This sort of confusion, unfortunately, is very widespread, and even more unfortunately it's still perpetuated now, even while Google and others struggle to correct that, because some people with vested interests (in selling stuff allegedly designed to circumvent an actually non-existent "duplicate content penalty") talk about duplicate content as if it included content across different domains. :p :rolleyes:

I think and hope the links above will clarify that misunderstanding, anyway, when you have time to read them.

The important thing is not to be misled by people whose idea of article marketing is that it's simply a form of SEO (i.e. rather than the traffic-generation method in its own right it actually is!): as so many of the successful article marketers here will attest to, that "information" has come straight out of the Urban Myth School of Internet Marketing.

On this question, the consensus of opinion among people making a living from article marketing is very different from the one expressed by a few sellers of software/services/backlinks. Some interpretative and judgmental skills can be helpful to resolve conflicting "information". But until enough experience is acquired to develop those, there's always Google's own information as a reliable enough starting place.

This post may also interest you: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5813594

I have a follow-up question about article syndication. I have been trying to consume all of the different forum posts on article syndication, duplicate content, article directory submission, etc. Up until now, my thinking has been pretty firmly in the camp that we should post an article first on our site, then post it to a few article directories with a goal of getting it picked up by other related blogs (with the backlinks from those related blogs being much more valuable than the backlinks from the article directories, but the directories are a tool for being syndicated), etc. Not worried about duplicate content except on my own site (which I can address through use of the canonical tag).

Then this morning I read this transcript of a video on the SEO Brain Trust site, and now I'm wondering if this is a new development I should be paying attention to. If you read the transcript, you can skip down to page 11 and start reading. On page 14 of the transcript, in the middle of a discussion about Google's new author attribution features, I read this:

Any comments on this?

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer - I really appreciate it.

Why you all are worried of duplicate content? If you want to publish your own website content in some article directories, publish it. But "customisation of content" is what I will go for. Little modifications, additions or omissions can even make your content interesting. So, why not go for custom content writing?