Duplicate Content Won’t Hurt You, Unless It Is Spammy: Matt Cutts

Duplicate content is a huge topic in the search engine optimization (SEO) space; heck, we even have a category devoted to the topic. But should we worry about it? Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, said he wouldn’t stress about it — that is, unless it is spammy duplicate content.
In a video posted today, Matt Cutts answers, “How does required duplicate content (terms and conditions, etc.) affect search?”
Matt Cutts said twice that you should not stress about it, in the worse non-spammy case, Google may just ignore the duplicate content. Matt said in the video, “I wouldn’t stress about this unless the content that you have duplicated is spammy or keyword stuffing.”
Google has said time and time again, duplicate content issues are rarely a penalty. It is more about Google knowing which page they should rank and which page they should not. Google doesn’t want to show the same content to searchers for the same query; they do like to diversify the results to their searchers.

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Good news, but google should distinguish between original and duplicate content, because sometimes we found duplicate content site ranked in search than the original sites

 

Duplicate content is never going to help you in the long run. I'm 100% sure google will penalize sites with duplicate content as we have seen in the past.

 

I'm not satisfy with your justification. we know that after launching Google Panda, duplicate contents becoming key reason to spamming your sites and degrading your ranking on search engine. i'm sure that duplicate contents never helps to grow your business or uplift your site search engines. but its definitely harm your site in long run. thank you for your information but it is not valid information and not also creative way to ranking the site on search engines.

 

It may not hurt, but certainly won't help.

 

Matt Cutts, bullshitting the public since 2007. If Google did half of what they said they were trying to do, most SEOs wouldn't be so confused.

 

But I feel he gives some important info as well. As a person doing SEO, I get answers for some of my questions. He atleast says some of the DONTs. Examples are like - removing the link list from a page on the sidebar/footer, avoiding keyword stuffing, etc.

 

I think, Google has changed its algorithm but what about Panda?

What I think, duplicate content won't penalize your website but it won't help in SEO as well.

 

This. Generally speaking duplicate content is filtered since they don't want to display duplicate results in the SERPs you're not penalized for it. Also make sure you deal with duplicate content on your own site.

Panda was mostly about targeting low quality sites, not just those with a lot of duplicate content. Plenty of sites hit by panda didn't have duplicate content issues.

 

It is recommended to use relevant content rather than duplicate content.

 

Do you think panda is the only reason why low quality sites were hit? Why wouldn't it be the penguin?