Hi, I had been using some free articles for contents for my sites. What I have discovered is that most of the free articles have 0 page rank! These articles are taken from article directories. Those articles that are written by myself have some page rank. So... my opinion is that, as best as possible not to use duplicated content. I am in the midst of researching and re-writting to replace the duplicated contents... A rather tedious process...
Yes it is a rather tedious process, but if you want to be ranked using articles you have to do it. When you write an article, just change the title and some phrases, if you are able to change it a 25% or more, you'll avoid duplicated content.
It has been known for a long time now, Google doesn't like duplications. That's why you see lots of people buying/selling articles all over the place, simply to get fresh and original content to their websites. With original content, your pages will be indexed higher on certain keywords aswell.
Original Content has been stated time and time again by the search engine. So why anyone would go and use content that is not original is hard to understand.... It's like being told playing Russian Roulette with semi automatic handgun will kill you, and still needing to see if that's true....
Duplications is always bad anyway. If you even take Google out of the mix, who wants to go to a site that just copies what others did already. The more original your articles are the more people will want to read them and the more they will return to see what else you add. You can see the easy money people who create lots of duplicate sites to make a few dollars a month per site but they never last long and they are chasing the next big thing. It all boils down to do you want a site that will last or the earn a little and move on ?
Duplicate contents will hurt your site..google will penalized and add it into supplemental pages. I learn that the hard way.
Hi Guys, Thanks for all the advices. I have once more question... Will the entire site(domain name) be penalised if there are only a percentage of duplicated contents? Thanks again...
It depends on the percentage, it depends on the source, and it depends on the trust google has in your site. For instance the ODP (www.dmoz.org) has content that's copied all over the web, but it doesn't do the ODP any harm, because they are the source and their site is very well trusted: has a high PR and a very old domain. If a high trust site copies material off a low trust site, you can bet the high trust site will not get penalized: the low trust site will. But since most sites we're discussing in these forums are in fact struggling to get visitors and don't have that much google-trust the message still stands: don't get duplicate content.
Unique content is always best, but duplicate content can have it's merits and you can get page rank with it if you get enough links to the article and site. I had a website that had about 50% duplicate content and was PR0 with barely any visitors. I decided I really wanted to develop the site 'cause I really liked the topic and wrote a bunch of articles for it, submitted it to directories and got a few good reciprocal links. After a month or so I noticed a lot of my duplicate pages that were in supplementals came out and I was getting traffic to them (I actually didn't realize this would happen but was adding new unique pages in the hopes of getting traffic to them and thinking the dupes were a lost cause!). Went from under 10 visitors a day to 600. Don't get me wrong - it took a lot of work and didn't happen overnight. So if you want to work to get links and develop your site with unique content as well then I think having some dupes is OK. Some articles available through article directories are quite good and may enhance your users experience as they may not have seen them elsewhere. If you just want to blast up a site that is all duplicate articles and not work at promoting it then I don't think you will get very far!
One thing I read about syndicating articles is that it's okay with Google if you include a link about to the original source. At least this is what I read on their blog, don't remember the exact link.
the main criteria for page rank is backlinks. i have two suggests for you. * write your own articles * continue to build backlinks