Duplicate Content Penalty - A myth or a reality

Duplicate content generally isn't penalized.

You can place no follow tags or change the titles to cut down on the pages that are placed in the SI.

 

In my opinion the page age is decide the which is original content. If page is updated very long before then it will showed top in serps instead of other page that have duplicate content

what's your opinion guy's

Thanks

 

Duplicate content attracts penalty, and your question is strange that how google comes to know, which content has been written first. Google has such an algorithm to know which content has already been written. No confusion about it. Whatever content is written, server keeps record of it on which that website is hosted. and second factor is that how much that content has duplicity.

 

Google had already stopped showing about suplemental indexing.

 

there are probably many factors to determine duplicate content for Google. Date of creation, years of domain, reputation, neighborhood etc.

It cant be based on duplicate content alone because that would make your competitors targets - You could open a new site for the sole purpose of creating and duplicating everything on competitor sites .. as soon as your spoof site had a rival level of PR, traffic.

Google has a copy of pages - or 'snap shots' as they call it - their bots have a record of when this snapshot was created. That could be a problem though if another site copies your content and then gets their page indexed faster - giving them the snapshot original date/log. That must be when they take into account other factors.

 

How do you know that google has stopped it?

 

yep, I agree with you. Ezinearticles is also a adsense partner, just watch their ads blog. I think if the content is duplicated, but you add something benefit for reader like image, video or something else, your site could not be penalized. and all we do here are guessing, there's no information disclosed by google.

 

well its just that when facts are not available and we cannot get hands on, we have to come up with the most logical and close to real theory and work accordingly. That's how Technology has been moving forward for long time now.

 

No index and no follow is an option but then if you add something to your website you want it to be found via search indexing. by using robot.txt you are defeating the whole point. Besides this the menace (duplicate content) will always remain no matter how hard we and search engines try. I have heard that you can also file a DMA with Google is someone copies your content.

 

This is what I've seen for duplicate content on the same site. At work we have a site where some pages are duplicated 6 times (each is under a different city name). The first alphabetical city page has PR5 and the others are grey barred.

 

Hmm, interesting point there.

 

I want to correct myself, some of the articles from ezine articles on my blog ado come up in search engines.

 

There are no penalties for duplicate content.
read the official google word:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/12/deftly-dealing-with-duplicate-content.html

 

Say someone starts a new site, and its a direct competitor for example, and your site gets indexed regularly, could this person just wait for new posts to be put on the new site, copy them directly on his own knowing they will get indexed much sooner, do this over and over, new site has no idea its happening, and bam the new site is penalised for duplicate content.

 

Its a myth but its reality, once your content was duplicated you were sudjecting for a penalty.,

 

It is an interesting angle, you copy content and that copied content gets crawled and indexed sooner than the original content. In the eye of search engines the original content is now duplicate, provided this is the only criteria to judge it.

However I cannot see a definite way of finding the index and crawl rate of a competitors website and does cannot positively assume that my copied content would get indexed quicker than the original.

 

yes duplicate content will panelised by SE!

 

Google caches every page they crawl , so it is easy for them push the copied story to supplemental results ..

 

I don't think you get penalize per se. It would just get pushed into the supplemental results. So SERP-wise it might not show up at all, but it shouldn't hurt the trust/authority/importance of your domain.

For a whitehat site, you shouldn't get extremely penalized. Otherwise, an authority site can copy your article and knock you out of the SERPs *and* get your domain's importance hurt. The latter shouldn't happen.

 

search engine not crawling page, what is use of that page!