Writing Articles - but want to avoid duplicate penalty

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    I've been writing a batch of alternative energy articles and using online sources to obtain the data.
    The articles are different in "almost" every way, as there are a few groupings of words that couldn't really be substituted.
    I would say a maximum of 5% could be similar to the source articles.
    Is this something that would be punished by google, or is there a certain amount of leeway given? as hardly any article or piece of work out there can be considered truly original.

    Thanks for any advice
     
    staffjam, Aug 12, 2009 IP
  2. Dee2007

    Dee2007 Active Member

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    As you said sometimes certain words or phrases need to go together, if apart from those instances your article is unique you'll be fine.

    Many people spin their articles (I personally never have), so I stand to be corrected, but I doubt that after being spun they would be 95% different to the original ;), so yours sound like unique articles to me.


    Dee
     
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  4. Vedic Warrior

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    Here you must be more concerned about copyright issues rather than duplicate issue. duplicate content is over hyped anyways. as you are saying there is only 5% similarity (that too for words which can not be substituted) that means.

    You have no reason to worry about.
     
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    I agree.check it in copyscape.
     
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    I don't think 5% is large enough to be seen as duplicate - IN that case, the whole internet would be duplicate as there are so many commonly used words and phrases
     
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    staffjam Active Member

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    Great stuff - thanks guys. I thought it woud be a bit harsh to penalise me for that - just wanted to check though.
    Thanks again.
     
    staffjam, Aug 13, 2009 IP
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    Yeah, I think you should be alright, I've been writing articles in that fashion for a while for a fair few of my client's sites, covering lots of different market niches and submitting them to a load of directories. It seems to be working fairly well, rankings have been improving steadily since I started.
     
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