Google's Duplicate Content Views
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Hi Fellow Warriors
I thought some of you may be interested in some new information that was recently released by Google on how it see's duplicate content.
This 3 minute youtube video is well worth watching.
Did you know that Google estimates that as much as 25-30% of the content on the internet is duplicate content.
As such duplicate content is considered normal and NOT spam by Google.
Google will penalise your site if it abuses the use of duplicated content.
This youtube video is by Matt Cutts who joined Google as a software engineer in January 2000 and is currently the head of Google’s Webspam team. As such his view point could be considered definitive on this subject.
In fact I intend to include more duplicate content (by way of relevant content curation) in future blogs without abusing this form of content duplication.
As good as this clarification is, its worth noting that some within the internet marketing circles are doubtful of total accuracy of the statements made. I thought I should make you aware of these other concerns.
However, there is a question I would like to pose?
Google indicated that where duplicate content is identified, only 1 copy is served up and the rest are - I presume, ignored for that search instance.
The question is - HOW DOES GOOGLE DECIDE UPON WHICH COPY OF THE DUPLICATE CONTENT TO DISPLAY IN SEARCHES?
As it was not answered I was interested in getting other warrior forum members opinion.
I thought some of you may be interested in some new information that was recently released by Google on how it see's duplicate content.
This 3 minute youtube video is well worth watching.
Did you know that Google estimates that as much as 25-30% of the content on the internet is duplicate content.
As such duplicate content is considered normal and NOT spam by Google.
Google will penalise your site if it abuses the use of duplicated content.
This youtube video is by Matt Cutts who joined Google as a software engineer in January 2000 and is currently the head of Google’s Webspam team. As such his view point could be considered definitive on this subject.
In fact I intend to include more duplicate content (by way of relevant content curation) in future blogs without abusing this form of content duplication.
As good as this clarification is, its worth noting that some within the internet marketing circles are doubtful of total accuracy of the statements made. I thought I should make you aware of these other concerns.
However, there is a question I would like to pose?
Google indicated that where duplicate content is identified, only 1 copy is served up and the rest are - I presume, ignored for that search instance.
The question is - HOW DOES GOOGLE DECIDE UPON WHICH COPY OF THE DUPLICATE CONTENT TO DISPLAY IN SEARCHES?
As it was not answered I was interested in getting other warrior forum members opinion.
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