Did anyone read Jon Leger's ebook called Search Engine Myths Exposed? I thought it was one of the best ebooks about SEO that I have ever read. He explains "duplicate content" really well. Anyone else agree?
Think it's just what Google does sometimes. I've had many first page organic ads that drop then a few weeks later are back to where they originally came in.
The same article on different websites is a duplicate ARTICLE, not duplicate content (in google's eyes). but most people (for some reason beyond my imagination) tend to think that this leads to some kind of penalty or even de-indexing from google. Duplicate CONTENT is many copies of the same article on the same website. or EXACT copy of a webpage, including graphics and code. In this case only one copy of it gets indexed. In case of different websites google simply adjusts rankings of pages with article copies so that they rank lower than the original source. Pages only, not websites. It's not a penalty - it's a bloody common sense If it wasn't like this what would happen to all these media giants and newspapers who re-publish each others hot news? They would all be penalized and de-indexed one ofter another lol Of course google's algorithm isn't perfect and it happens when a copy ranks higher than the source, but this is simply due to an error.
Don't you often see exactly the same content, but on different websites? I'm just trying to say that it's not duplicate, unless it's on the same website or IP.
Yep, scraper sites, like DP scraper sites, there's a ton of them. Well I disagree. The same content on a different domain is duplicate content.
I agree. This is why Google hates autoblogs. This is why I always buy or write unique articles. This is why people buy vBSEO.
Started a response about duplicate content, but it got quite long so turned it into an article at http://www.seo-gold.com/google-duplicate-content-penalty.html I've had a hell of a time with thin affiliate content (which is duplicate content) being filtered from Google long term Google indexed it, but the SERPs are really bad. David Law