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17 years ago

Absolutely! Only if you duplicate content on one site. Like have the same article on 3 different pages, then you'll get penalized. Dup content is a fat myth.

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dvduval

17 years ago

Another pitfall is when you try to make a site that is composed almost entirely of duplicate content.

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bgmacaw 17 years ago

Originally Posted by dvduval

Another pitfall is when you try to make a site that is composed almost entirely of duplicate content.

Hmm....

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And your still probably working at a 9 to 5 pace
I wonder how bad that tastes

Yep, that's a pitfall, having all that duplicate content on a site.
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TheRichJerksNet

17 years ago

1. Duplicate content penalty is a Myth with Article Marketing.. This is a proven fact!
2. You can use the same content on the same domain twice.. This is a proven fact!
3. You can dominate googles front page with the same article posted on different article directories... This is a proven fact!

Dup content comes into play when you try to trick the search engines by creating many different "doorway" pages and etc on the same domain name.

James

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askloz

17 years ago

sure, there's no penalty in duplicate content if one were to post to numerous article directories... but let me ask you all this who still to this day waste their time doing this.

ONLY 1 of those articles is going to count as a backlink, and only one of those articles is gonna rank.. so why waste ones time with say 200 duplicate posts to get backlinks for the sake of being lazy, when it only takes approx 5-15 minutes to re-write about 1000 of them, blasting 20-50 out a day to article directories and making those links count.

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Steven Heron

17 years ago

Originally Posted by askloz

sure, there's no penalty in duplicate content if one were to post to numerous article directories... but let me ask you all this who still to this day waste their time doing this.

ONLY 1 of those articles is going to count as a backlink, and only one of those articles is gonna rank.. so why waste ones time with say 200 duplicate posts to get backlinks for the sake of being lazy, when it only takes approx 5-15 minutes to re-write about 1000 of them, blasting 20-50 out a day to article directories and making those links count.

This is actually incorrect. You can rank two identical articles just fine, and receive backlinks from them both. You can rank 10 identical article just fine, and receive ten backlinks from them.

Provided each article has enough keyword authority vested into it to be worthwhile, having backlinks from multiple, identical articles, is better than having backlinks from one.

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findtips

17 years ago

Along the lines of the duplicate content myth, it is also a myth that you will always get penalized for what is now called "spamming your meta tags" or using rows of text in the body. I have some older sites where we left the tags "spammed" when it then became unacceptable to do so. We were never penalized for it and this has continued on for years. We also just put up a brand new site with rows of keywords in succession (to use in an index fashion) and we're not being penalized. The lesson here IMO is that everything is relative. I believe it comes back to balance and intent. I think Google's bots are smart enough to recognize patterns of people trying to dupe the system. Otherwise, if you just have a few things here and there that might under normal circumstance be considered "unacceptable", it doesn't really seem to matter.

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ONOFFMarketing

17 years ago

Duplicate content is a SEO disease that IMO is way overrated. Originality only counts mostly with your readership. The internet is big, duplicate content will not hurt you as much as is stated. If anything, the negative results of duplicate content are far outweighed by the benefit of additional exposure on multiple article sites. Catch my drift? Lose 1, gain 2.

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SeanIM

17 years ago

I love how a good friend of mine, Howie Schwartz puts it....

"My bank account apparently doesn't give a crap about duplicate content..."

or something to that affect.

Personally, I'm a bit more of a control freak about things I publish so I like to ensure things are changed up....that being said I bet Howie's bank account is prettier than mine....lol

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findtips

17 years ago

lol... that's funny Sean. It makes me think of that old saying, "I'm laughing all the way to the bank."

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eseller17

17 years ago

I think there is no penalty on dup content, however the dup page itself will not do well in serp

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riolas

17 years ago

It is not a Myth.

You will get a backlink but if there are many duplicates of the original, you WILL NOT go in standard search. You will be put in the sites with similar content as the end of the search results.

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Steven Heron

17 years ago

Originally Posted by riolas

It is not a Myth.

You will get a backlink but if there are many duplicates of the original, you WILL NOT go in standard search. You will be put in the sites with similar content as the end of the search results.

I believe the question was if there was a penalty, and not whether the site gets placed in supplemental results. In regards to the penalty, that is indeed a myth.

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bgmacaw

17 years ago

Originally Posted by riolas

It is not a Myth.

You will get a backlink but if there are many duplicates of the original, you WILL NOT go in standard search. You will be put in the sites with similar content as the end of the search results.

Did you know that carrot juice has a number of health benefits, including getting rid of confusion?

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askloz

17 years ago

lol, i thought it was good for your eye sight

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Smokey_Joe 17 years ago

A diversity of opinions - pretty confusing in fact. Here's a warriorforum thread devoted to the same issue http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...nt-google.html.
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arturus

17 years ago

Thanks Smokey_Joe I'll take a look

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TheCren

17 years ago

Duplicate content on your own site is what makes the SEs unhappy. If you use WordPress beware! There are plugins to fix that though: Duplicate Content Cure Plugin

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raphaelgaga

17 years ago

Question: If I write 1 article and then use it to build a Squidoo, Hubpage, Wetpaint pages, etc., all using the exact same article... each one pointing back to my main website... am I just wasting my time? Or is the consensus here that as long as that same article is spread across a number of web properties, that it won't be detrimental?

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Steven Heron

17 years ago

Originally Posted by raphaelgaga

Question: If I write 1 article and then use it to build a Squidoo, Hubpage, Wetpaint pages, etc., all using the exact same article... each one pointing back to my main website... am I just wasting my time? Or is the consensus here that as long as that same article is spread across a number of web properties, that it won't be detrimental?

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a consensus, but I can tell you that it will be beneficial, and neither useless nor detrimental.

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Jenie0109

17 years ago

you'll get sandboxed..thats a fact!

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aa_kusuma 17 years ago

Duplicate content hmmmm, based on my experience you can still get rank with duplicate content but it depend on your linking weight.

because google only pick 1 article from a lot of same article out there to put on their rank.
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- bgmacaw 17 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by aa_kusuma
  
  because google only pick 1 article from a lot of same article out there to put on their rank.
  
  I suppose you haven't heard about how carrot juice has a number of health benefits? Carrot juice plays the most important part in understanding how Google deals with duplicate content across domains.
  
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Siko

17 years ago

Due to my 3rd language speaking English after Romanian and German, I searched a lot to know if google penalty is put on the sites which use plr content without rewriting it and apparently it does not! You only get penalized if you use multiple duplicated pages on your own domain and try to fool google for higher ranking!

But i felt bad for using dup plr content on my site so I had it removed! I don't know why but i just felt bad.

Cristian Braicu!

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Steven Heron

17 years ago

I really don't know why these new people to the forum bump up their post count with such useless, false advice. It really just confuses the OP.

Please, if you don't know what you're talking about, don't confuse others.

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