Duplicate Content "Penalty" or "Filter"

[CommonDavid]

Is anyone an authority on the subject?

I always thought that if you had duplicate content on your site, your pages with dup content got banished to the supplemental listings. I've never heard of a duplicate content PENALTY, thereby penalizing your whole site for dup content?

Am I correct fine sirs and madams?

[kewlchat]

some say it is no such thing but im sure that it is but i dont think anyone REALY knows how it works for sure.

[CommonDavid]

I just recently found a ton of sites that get crazy traffic... from duplicating content and story headlines. It can't be that bad if these sites are rocking with traffic???

[IEmailer.com]

Your website wont get a penalty for duplicate content unless you are sky scraping the whole site as it is!
Then simply it's just a filter if it's really a duplicated content of the other page.

[the-hood]

interesting subject... most of the so called marketing and seo "authorities" now put a lots of emphesis on avoiding duplicate content on the websites and blogs... from Google's prospective it makes sense too.. they don't want to serve the same content over and over.... will keep an eye on .. where Google is heading in this direction :-)

[mhmdkhamis]

i yhink it filter

[davidtl99]

It depends who google think the content originated from. If your site is older and has more authority than the site your scraping, google could give a crap about the other site.

[StudioWorks]

The duplicate content thing is an issue debated for so long now. I still havent seen any real proof that Google will penalize you for duplicate content. I see quite a lot of sites ( indeed, old sites ) with duplicate content that are going very very veyr well.

What could be the explication for that ?

[powerseo]

if duplicate content is an issue DP also have this problem
again and again same thread

[Divisive Cottonwood]

What with tagging, duplicate content is a regular occurrence on the net these days, but as a rule I always try to avoid it...

[tinycoin]

duplicated content or clone websites??
how could we decide which site copy content from others?
We are living in internet, dynamic and virtual world.
Who could control it?? Google?
lol, never....

tell me which sites were banned by doing it!!!

[magoo]

Isn't the whole concept of article marketing based on sites creating duplicate content? if it was penalised then article marketing wouldn't be effective at improving your serps you would think.

[tgx874sah]

According to the latest blog post from the officiel google webmasters blog, you got filtred in the SE result, no penality

[WebSolutions86]

Your webpage won't rank if its a 100% copy of some other webpage which is much older.
Don't copy, be original!

[aikaz]

If I am a Google then I will drop the pagerank the duplicate content website lower rather than it is banned and also how much the portion (in percentage) of duplicate contents on that website.

[3walim]

don’t be worry about it
for example take bookmark sites= as digg he one of the biggest duplicate content
and what google do with him? they indexed his page over your site

[CommonDavid]

Originally Posted by magoo

Isn't the whole concept of article marketing based on sites creating duplicate content? if it was penalised then article marketing wouldn't be effective at improving your serps you would think.

Great point, that's actually where this topic originated from in my mind

[InfoSmith]

Google has BIG algorithm to FILTER similar content.....

[snowbird]

Google is pretty good at identifying and eliminating duplicate content from appearing towards the top of the search results. It's far from perfect, but normally is isolated to specific pages or the directory (/) that the duplicate content appears in. Even scraper sites normally get PR and rank well for their own name.

It's really not a duplicate "penalty" so to speak. Duplicate content just gets pushed to the back of the SERPS or not indexed. It does not affect the rankings of unique pages within a site.

[ckgni]

It is not a penalty, it is an automatic filter.

Duplicate content some times is legal and there is no reason for penalty. Examples:
- site mirrors (for instance PHP manual and Linux Documentation Project have lots of mirrors)
- sites publishing press releases that are already published to some companies official web sites
- files hosted on multiple servers to balance traffic
- webmasters creating mirrors of their sites on multiple domains/subdomains or servers
- some authors publishing their articles on multiple article directories or forums
Pages from the above examples will be filtered and only a few of them will appear in high SERPS. The rest go to the supplementary results. This is done for the users convenience (noone wants to see in the first 5 pages of Google search exactly the same content, but from different subdomains mirror1.site.net, mirror2.site.net etc.)

You may have your site manually penalized for web spamming if you copy content from other sites without a backlink to the original source and then Google receives complains by the author for stolen content.