I have a hubpage account where I simply write whatever. These hubs range from product review, to self-help topics. I recently started a blog and I want to duplicate my articles already written on hub. My question concerns duplicate content. Every one of my hubs have been cached by google. Can I unpublish my hubs and move my content to my new blog without getting pentalized by google for duplication? Is there a proper way to do this? Do I unpublish my hubs, and ping google, then post the articles on my new blog? Has anyone ran into this process?
There has been some grey areas when it comes to duplicated content. But I guess the best way would be to rewrite them, this way if Google decides to discount duplicated content, you'd still have a lot of content going for you.
penalties for duplicated content is a myth and simply not true. You may have duplicated content period
I would like to avoid rewriting for one main reason. It is my content which I wrote myself. Hubpages allows me to retain my rights to it. Would google recognize this if it was unpublished?
Bolding added my me to what Freecash said There is no such thing as you are speaking of it. Re-posting the same content in more than one place on your site may carry some penalty. An example of this is some of the MFA sites that have maybe 20 paragraphs of content and regurgitate it for a 100 different pages depending on which link you click. Your new site may rank higher or lower than your initial post of the content. Neither I or anyone else can tell you exactly how Google chooses to decide this. Personally speaking I might add a small note at the top or bottom of each article saying, "I originally published this at XXXXXXX".
Maybe you referring on the regular and printer version of the content which google does not penalize. But Google does not call this penalty they call it issue. Duplicate content results to de-indexing of the page.
Dupe content doesn't exist. I have an article on ezines and an article on goarticles. They rank one after each other in the serps!!!! Identical content Dont sweat this stuff people
Sorry but from my personal experience, duplicate content gets penalized. I made the foolish mistake of using an article spinner in the past and while some articles got backlinked, if I do a search for the keyword strings, the some of the spun articles show up yets most are hidden. Google will say some of the content is duplicated and omitted and ask if you would like to repeat the search including the omitted content.
I agree. Google itself says "Duplicate content on a site is not grounds for action on that site unless it appears that the intent of the duplicate content is to be deceptive and manipulate search engine results. If your site suffers from duplicate content issues, and you don't follow the advice listed above, we do a good job of choosing a version of the content to show in our search results" on http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66359
There's no such thing as duplicate content penalty. It's a fallacy, a myth. You can republish an article as many as you want for as long you own the copyright to it.
I was not referring to duplicated content on one site. I was talking about publishing the same article to several article directories without changing it. It is not an issue or 'penalty' This statement was actually started to circulate from directories who only wanted to benefit from getting original articles... Tip on adding the additional line at the top and bottom is great. Thanks for sharing
Simply not true. These pages do get indexed and are live. There have been several case studies and examples that have been posted in the past. goto one of the article directories, take an article, copy a sentence within the article and do a search to see how many pages on different directories would show up....
There are hundreds of websites using the content of article directories and the content from different sources like digg or from blog ping back. I have not found any one in the google on first of second page even not on the 20th page with some best keywords. Google penalize for duplicate content.
If you already published your work in hubpages then why not make use of that as a base for your blogs articles? I think it will be a waste of effort if you will unpublish them. Just spin those articles to avoid plagiarism. easyarticlespinner.net is a good tool that can help you with that.