Is duplicate content online really penalised by Google?

If a website has multiple URLs pointing to the same content - is it really bad?

If a website takes content from a partner website and and posts it- is it that bad?

Also how can you get penalized?

 

Yes, Duplicate content cause lower ranking . Also sometimes it's dropping duplicate contents from the their index.

 

Yes, It may decrease your ranking in the SERP and may be penalized.

 

You can -50 -80 penality or even face deindexation.

 

i don't thinks that duplicate content should penalized by google.

 

... so people can rip off contents from other sites and walk away with it? I don't think so.

 

Of course it should be and is penalized. I learned this the hard way when I first created the same page and used multiple domains all with the same website..... Oops! It took a while for the real one to even get indexed again once I realized that was a big no no. Don't do it!

 

There are two different situations here:
1- Duplicated content, using a content which already exist on another site
2- Different pages with the same content on the same website

There is no penalty for the first one! Google pushes that page in the "omitted results" but doesn't penalize the website and its other pages. One simple reason: No way to find out which one is the original one and which one is copied. (Unless someone reports it as plagiarism to Google) The only result you can expect by increasing this kind of non-unique content is that Google crawls your site less frequently because it couldn't find much of new content.

Unlike the first one, the second one can cause penalty because it is totally in the webmaster's hands. It can be considered as you trying to cheat by duplicating your pages. (It was an old, old black-hat method which doesn't work anymore.)

 

you don't get penalized for duplicated content. let's say you copy an article from another website. you will not get penalized for that (think about all the lyrics websites that have the same content ) but you can get sued by the author of that article and also it's not very ethical thing to do.

 

duplicate content never get penalized but it will never rank too. People need to understand penalized content is that content which was ranking and then stopped ranking suddenly.

 

If it stops ranking, isn't that like a penalization?

 

Situation #3 (which I am wondering):

You register a dropped domain which a few years ago ad content on it, if you were to use that content now, and it's the same domain, it won't hurt SE results, correct?

 

No it doesnt get penalised as if you think about it, people could steal ur content post it on their site and get your site penalised, there is a matt cutts video somewhere explaining this, I cant find it at the mo mind, the general jist of it, is that pages with duplicate content will be dropped and not penalised !

Woc

 

UNIQUE means, if you search for it or portions of it in double quotes, it returns no result other than your page.

If it was a site once and expired, as long as nobody else used the same content somewhere else, it will be considered as new and unique content 'cause search engines only keep an archive of the page for a limited time and after that remove it from their index.

 

exactly. not ranking is not the same as penalized

not true, version with best links ranks highest.

 

I know what unique is silly.

The archive (from archive.org) shows content in 2005/2006

 

Thanks for such a nice word! I appreciate that!

The archive from archive.org doesn't matter because they have blocked the crawlers.

You can see it here:
http://web.archive.org/robots.txt

 

I mean archive of the domain I am talking about that expired...not archive.org

 

Yes. Duplicate content is really bad and google will definitely penalize your site if it has many url's pointing to same site.

 

Assume,
if ur site is on rank first for particular keyword and u copied ur content frm other site which is ranking after you or related page, then the competitor can report your site to google , it can cause ur site be penalized

because your site is fraugh with duplicate content of claimer site,

i think s