Duplicate Content will not hurt you, unless it’s spammy – Matt Cutts

Duplicate Content will not hurt you, unless it’s spammy – Matt Cutts

July 22, Matt Cutts replied on following question: “How does duplicate copy that's legally required (ie Terms & Conditions across multiple offers) affect performance in search?” - Jason, New York

Here is the link where Matt replied:

According to Matt duplicate content doesn't effect on your website search ranking, unless it is keyword stuffing or spammy.

I hope this will help you to make your business better.

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How they will distinguish about the content is spam or not?

 

Is it latest news.. can't digest it..

 

I think they may developed pattern that can identify spammy content.

 

whaaaaaaaaaaat?
Is he Mad? i already deleted my all articles from article websites because of duplicate content as i heard that google consider duplicate content as spam.
Man! Why so many changes.
Google Sucks

 

Google is very much like the weather. Everybody complains about it, but nobody can do anything about it.

 

We have information about weather. But google(don't deserve G) anything can happen in a minute.

 

That was the right thing to do. 1) Those sites are essentially spammy (so it would be a bad idea to duplicate content there), 2) Article sites are often offered up as examples of unnatural links. So you've done yourself a favour.

 

Not sure why this should make a tiny bit of difference to anyone doing SEO the 'right way'

Duplicating/spinning content is an easy way out, anyone who thinks that doing so will be the answer to making a shed-load of money online is misinformed.

 

Yes, Duplicate content is not spammy, otherwise all news sites should be banned on Google !! cuz they always have news titles and contents are duplicate !!

 

A little off topic, but still relevant to the area:

I always wonder about duplicate content. What if, for example I wrote a kick ass article and put it on my website, but somebody came along before it was indexed, put it on their website and theirs gets indexed first? I mean if I push out (which I don't, I don't bother with articles) 5-8 articles a day, I'd never know! Some other mush would get credit for my work and by the time I realize if I ever do, they've already had traffic, sales whatever from my content. I'd then have to be bothered to do something about it spending more time and resources with takedown notices and informing Google (who probably wouldn't listen anyway as how would I prove it was mine and on my site first?

 

The thing that people always neglect to take in to account is what is really happening, there is only so much you can believe, how long has Google been telling us that building hundreds of thousands of crappy links will get you banned? i could show you dozens of websites ranking (and have been for months) for some of the most competitive finance related terms in the UK, guess what? Hundreds of thousands of porn, gambling and all-round crap linking to them.

Banning sites for Duplicate content makes no sense whatsoever, news sites around the globe (bbc, CNN etc) have this type of content on them all the time.

The problem comes if your site only has dupe content and gives off no other signs of authority, then your in trouble (at least that is what Google pretends).

 

Barry Shwartz aka Rusty Brick (DP member #3) posted about this > http://www.seroundtable.com/google-duplicate-content-dont-worry-17115.html

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In my point of view, there is nothing to worry about this news or surprise about it because this is not a factor which is going to be followed by Google in the future but it has been followed by Google before itself. Matt Cutt said that "duplicate content won't hurt you" which only means that you won't penalize by Google but at the same time you won't get better ranking in Google SERP.
For example: If you have a webpages with duplicate content it may ranked in 4th or 5th pages ( approximately) in the SERP but won't reach 1st page for a high or medium competition keyword. If the keyword competition is low then it may reach the 2nd page but won't reach the top positions. so till now the search engine ranking is mainly based on the quality of content. Don't think that "here after we can use same content for multiple website" if you use duplicate content don't expect better ranking in GOOGLE ;-) :-P

 

Are you aware with http header canonicalisation? Read this post: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2011/06/supporting-relcanonical-http-headers.html

Dan Petrovic - Director of Dejan SEO has made experiment on content hijacking by copying content from low authority website to higher quality/authority website. They found socking results that search engine replace duplicate content site (authority website) inplace of original content website. Here he also provide the way to protect your website from being hijacked by proper use of canonical tag.
http://dejanseo.com.au/hijacked/

 

In news sites, all news are same but content would be different not same.

 

Yeap I agree with your explanation

 

2 Answers for you Direct from Google

Does Google penalize internal duplicate content?
http://www.reconsiderationrequests.net/google-hangouts/22-April-2013.php?#Q12

Is there a a Duplicate content penalty?
http://www.reconsiderationrequests.net/google-hangouts/24-May-2013.php?#Q8

 

Also no surprise there is no mention of a devaluation as Google likes to put it for duplicate content.
They love it when you use the word penalty, because in reality there are only a few penalties.

Devaluation is the key word or Suppression.

Will my rankings be suppressed as a result of duplicate content? I will try to ask that one the next time I talk with Google.

Most likely the answer is YES as they will say the higher the quality the higher the rankings in many instances.