If there are multiple sites with the same content, which one is marked as original and unique. With so many sites on the same niches and most probably same source there are bound to be many webmasters who will post the same content. How is originality handled by search engines?
The website that will get the authority over the content would most likely be the first website Google crawls, indexes and caches the said content. Post date is important, if you're first then that would automatically be yours.
Many times google doesn't know which one is original, they will show many sites in results though they will filter out some sites that don't have much authority.
Google has a unique algorithm which tracks the duplicate content. Also there are sites like copyscan and others with the help of which we and even the search engines track the duplicate content for website. Therefore it is always advisable to have a unique, spam-free and original content on the website.
I somewhat disagree mate, so how does Google know which website goes to the top most result? I think that they already have ways in filtering this out in which I do not know but only Google engineers would.
The website that gets crawled first by google bot would be considered original... Google has stated many times before that copied content is not much to be bothered about... If google would be penalizing for duplicate content, then social bookmarking and news websites won't be receiving so much traffic from google searches.
Possibly! the duplicate content doesn't get much exposure in Google nor it provides any depth in Google Adsense! because Google ignores duplicate content
so much misinformation here. google doesnt attribute it to the first published at all, it ranks the version on the most authoritative site. if another more powerful site than you puts your exact content on their site, its usually goodbye you. simple.
That wouldn't make sense either. So you're saying powerful websites, such as CNN or NYtimes can just copy content? and retain authority over it even if they don't even own it in the first place? Google would sound unfair to me and I think they wouldn't want their users to think about them like that. Unless we have Googleguy here then we can definitely get the most appropriate answer.
Yes i too agree with grimms point. Google can easily detect the the authority website with published date and time
Hello, Original Content & unique Content are most importance because Google banned duplicate content..
well make sense or not, thats the way it is, that's why Google advise you to always include links to the source if you're syndicating. if you'd like me to prove it to you I can stick something of yours up on a powerful blog and outrank you for it if you want? or, you can check this test of this we ran a while back, click this http://www.google.com/search?q=seo+keyword+structure+align++pages&pws=0&gl=US the #1 result is the syndicated version (altered titles only and all links left intact) and the #2 results is a friend's site whose content it is, and was published first. this information is not speculation, this is the way it works, both according to Google and more importantly verified by thorough and continuous tests over several years take it or leave it, your call
A very tempting offer! Hrmm let me think about it. Point taken. So how about for same websites who aren't that powerful as what I've exampled earlier. Normal blogs? Will it still apply the same or not? I guess it would be really hard to say for normal ones, I've also had my experiments and it shows the same for me and I haven't tried it with powerful websites yet.
you need to make sure yours is the authoritative version if possible. if there are several copies on similar level sites G will more than likely get confused. I've never seen any evidence that publishing first protects you from stronger sites plagarising you. for example i mean look at this scraped shit that ranks #14 for our brand name. black hat all the way.
I think it would be safe to assume that we can apply my first point earlier on post stamps or dates and who ever gets crawled first (this is of course, having the most authoritative version as much as possible) for normal/same level websites. I'll try and look for a video from Matt Cutts regarding this matter, I'm sure I've seen somewhere and I'll share it here.
please do, because it is not safe to assume that whatsoever. as I said this info does not come from what people tell us or even MC, it comes from daily practical experience for several years.