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Shall this count as duplicate content?

by TheEliteWarrior
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A while ago I wrote an article and posted it onto my Hubpages blog. Now I want to move that exact article onto my wordpress blog and delete it from Hubpages.

Shall that affect my Wordpress blog's SEO standing? Should I reword the entire article I wrote on Hubpages before moving it onto my wordpress blog?

My concern is that Google shall think I plagiarized that article and penalize my wordpress blog on the same topic even though it's my article..

Any thoughts?
#content #count #duplicate
  • Profile picture of the author aakon7
    I would certainly do a good job of rewording the article, that is the safe route to take!
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    • Profile picture of the author FakeItTilYouMakeIt
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      If you don't rewrite it then I say yes, yes it shall.

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  • Profile picture of the author Ephrils
    I'd just rewrite your article enough to make it different. You wrote it the first time so must be familiar with the subject matter.

    It will likely count as duplicate content if you do nothing at all to it.
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  • Profile picture of the author georgefuller
    Originally Posted by TheEliteWarrior View Post

    A while ago I wrote an article and posted it onto my Hubpages blog. Now I want to move that exact article onto my wordpress blog and delete it from Hubpages.

    Shall that affect my Wordpress blog's SEO standing? Should I reword the entire article I wrote on Hubpages before moving it onto my wordpress blog?

    My concern is that Google shall think I plagiarized that article and penalize my wordpress blog on the same topic even though it's my article..

    Any thoughts?
    Well how long does that content was posted from hubpage? as long as it is not yet crawled by google then that would be fine. just remember to remove every foot print of that content on hubpage. but if google has already crawled over it then that would already a duplicate once you post it on WP.

    I strongly recommend you create new content for the wordpress and interlink both. well it give you an extra boost of BL.
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    • Profile picture of the author TheEliteWarrior
      Originally Posted by georgefuller View Post

      Well how long does that content was posted from hubpage? as long as it is not yet crawled by google then that would be fine. just remember to remove every foot print of that content on hubpage. but if google has already crawled over it then that would already a duplicate once you post it on WP.
      It's been a year or more.

      I strongly recommend you create new content for the wordpress and interlink both. well it give you an extra boost of BL.
      What about simply rewording the entire article from Hubpages and then posting it onto wordpress? At the same time I can keep the article on Hubpages. How's that? Should I simply insert my wordpress site URL onto the Hubpages blog?
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  • Profile picture of the author Sue McDonald
    If you are going to rewrite it I cannot see why you would want to delete it on Hubpages.

    Why not rewrite it extensively and leave the Hubpages there. Hubpages are looked on favorably by Google and as this is a feeder site link it back to your blog.
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    • Profile picture of the author TheEliteWarrior
      Originally Posted by Sue McDonald View Post

      If you are going to rewrite it I cannot see why you would want to delete it on Hubpages.

      Why not rewrite it extensively and leave the Hubpages there. Hubpages are looked on favorably by Google and as this is a feeder site link it back to your blog.
      Ok, so I simply enter my URL on the hubpage blog to link back to my Wordpress?
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  • Profile picture of the author trade4861
    I deleted an article off my old website and placed the exact article on a new website and it ranked slightly better. Wait until it gets de-indexed before making the change and make sure no one else already copied the content.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sue McDonald
    Do a hyperlink. Where there is a relevant keyword or keywords link it at that spot. If I remember correctly you are allowed 2 links in Hubpages but just check their terms of service to find that out.
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  • Profile picture of the author sanusense
    No, It would consider as duplicate content, and Google definitely penalize your wordpress blog ! At the end of the day you don't have evidence to show them that the other one is also my blog and i wrote that article!!
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  • Profile picture of the author jxam69
    It can't be duplicate if it appears in only one location (we'll not unless you want to get into the bizarre realm of quantum physics).

    Just post it at the new URL and leave a link from the old Hubpages URL pointing to the new one.

    You might have to fill the Hubpage URL with some content to meet their minimum requirements.
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  • Profile picture of the author evilsaigon
    Since it was posted on hubpages a year ago, it's very likely to have already been indexed. Just spend some time rewriting it before posting on your own site.

    There is no need to delete the one at hubpages. Use one of the keywords inside the article to hyperlink to your site. It still serves as a good backlink.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hossain
    Originally Posted by TheEliteWarrior View Post

    A while ago I wrote an article and posted it onto my Hubpages blog. Now I want to move that exact article onto my wordpress blog and delete it from Hubpages.

    Shall that affect my Wordpress blog's SEO standing? Should I reword the entire article I wrote on Hubpages before moving it onto my wordpress blog?

    My concern is that Google shall think I plagiarized that article and penalize my wordpress blog on the same topic even though it's my article..

    Any thoughts?

    Tons of wrong information floating on this page! There are no duplicate content penalty at all. You can repost articles on different websites after posting them on your site. We call this process "Article Syndication". As a webmaster you have enough right to repost articles or any sort of contents on other sites for traffic or for other purpose.

    The only problem exact articles are hard to index. But if you post the article on just few websites then this is not gonna be big problem. I would no hesitate to post exact article on 5 different websites. Pretty sure google will index the articles after little or no extra efforts. But its not going to be the same case for 100 article blast certainly.
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    • Profile picture of the author TheEliteWarrior
      Originally Posted by Hossain View Post

      Tons of wrong information floating on this page! There are no duplicate content penalty at all. You can repost articles on different websites after posting them on your site. We call this process "Article Syndication". As a webmaster you have enough right to repost articles or any sort of contents on other sites for traffic or for other purpose.

      The only problem exact articles are hard to index. But if you post the article on just few websites then this is not gonna be big problem. I would no hesitate to post exact article on 5 different websites. Pretty sure google will index the articles after little or no extra efforts. But its not going to be the same case for 100 article blast certainly.

      Thanks for this post Hossain! Saved me some time from rewriting that article.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ben Acharyaa
    Google wouldnt care even if you post the article to wordpress and 10 other blog platforms without deleting it from hubpages. as somebody already talked about article syndication, i'm going to save you some time here. so the answer is NO, google is not going to penalize your site just becoz you're a writer and want to publish your article in more than one blog platform.

    FYI duplicate content penalty is a myth. however your rankings might drop if you have two pages of same content within a single website. not because of duplicate content penalty tho. there's a whole different story about that.
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    • Profile picture of the author TheEliteWarrior
      Originally Posted by Ben Acharyaa View Post

      however your rankings might drop if you have two pages of same content within a single website. not because of duplicate content penalty tho. there's a whole different story about that.
      Great, thanks for your insight.
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  • Profile picture of the author Janice Stacy
    It's been a year or more.
    It means the hub is indexed in google and must have got a lot of exposure. If you post this article in your blog now, it will surely be counted as duplicate content. You should rewrite the article and post in your blog to stay safe.
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    • Profile picture of the author TheEliteWarrior
      Originally Posted by Janice Stacy View Post

      It means the hub is indexed in google and must have got a lot of exposure. If you post this article in your blog now, it will surely be counted as duplicate content. You should rewrite the article and post in your blog to stay safe.
      According to the above 2 posts that's not the case.
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    • Profile picture of the author rafiseo
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      Originally Posted by Janice Stacy View Post

      It means the hub is indexed in google and must have got a lot of exposure. If you post this article in your blog now, it will surely be counted as duplicate content. You should rewrite the article and post in your blog to stay safe.

      This is not the case. Hossain and Ben already explained and I red many posts on WF and on other blogs that Duplicate content is just a Myth! No need to be worried.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dr MaxIM
    I would definitely say that it would be treated as duplicated content. You can try to use it on your site and link to that article from your hubpage, saying - here is the original article, but I do not think it will help much.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ducksauce
    Why don't you delete the hub, give it time so it leaves the Google cache and then post it?
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    • Profile picture of the author TheEliteWarrior
      Originally Posted by Ducksauce View Post

      Why don't you delete the hub, give it time so it leaves the Google cache and then post it?
      How long is enough time usually?
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  • Profile picture of the author Joe Micheal
    Rewording / rewriting is a good option. If you don't want to use this option and want to move exactly the same article on your WordPress blog from Hub Pages blog, I advise you convert your old blog post into quote with placing reference on new blog URL at the end of blog post. This at least won't be treated as spam but as a referring content.
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  • Profile picture of the author Stuart william
    It would be better if you can use new content for your Wordpress blog, but if you want to use the same then you can rewrite the article with at-least 30% spin content
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  • Profile picture of the author JensonChong
    It would be considered duplicate as it is already indexed, it may be that others are linking to the url, the content may also be posted from hubpages to other sites, social sites.. so it is not good idea to delete that, you have to write fresh article to get benefit.
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