Hi, Im working on a new idea for a web site going along the lines of the big press release sites (prweb etc ...) but im a little confused with the 'duplicate content' issue ? If a company submit a PR to a few of the big online PR companies the chances are that the same PR will be submitted making the content duplicate across the PR sites? How doe this work with Google, yahoo and msn ? Is it a case of the first PR site indexed with the new PR takes the credit for the press release ? and all of the others are classed as duplicate ? If this is the case then i guess you just need to be indexed more often then your rival web site? If this is how it works why doesnt the other PR sites get banned for duplicate content ?
I am not able to get what you are asking lol. Wel, PR is associated with google if I am not wrong. It's a google term and I don't think Yahoo and MSN share this term, do they?.
Sorry ... let me explain ... When i say pr i mean 'press releases'. What im trying to work out is if a company submit a press release (pr) to a number of press release web sites (prweb etc .. ) of course the same press release will be on a number of different web sites ... causing duplicate data! So .. 1) Who gets credit for the original data ? is it the first press release web site that gets spidered? 2) Why dont the other press release web sites get banned for publishing duplicate content. (same data (press release) on many different sites ... who gets the credit for it? )
There are sites that allow you to check if anyone is using your content. But since the company itself is submitting the PR [sorry for that google PR] to many sites, how can they again complain of duplicate content? Well, if someone other than those the company had submitted published it, then ofcourse it will be illegal..
Search engines clearly have an issue with duplicate contant and might strip out pages from their index because they are too similar or identical. How similar they have to be to be removed from the index i don't know and i think it's difficult to control exactly which site/page gets to keep it. For articles i often place a longer and slightly modified version on my homepage and mention they can get the whole articles if they go to my site. This helps improve the traffic and increases the chance that my site gets the credit.
I like your opinion Binko, but i think darrens is not talking about Search Indexing if I am not confused. Maybe he is basically over copyrights and all...
IMHO if your article on other site links back to your site, it's ok for MSN and Yahoo. I created an article in Wikipedia around 3 months ago. This article links back to my site which has got the same article. As a result, I'm ranking in TOP 10 in MSN and Yahoo. In case of Google I don't know how it will affect you (I'm still sandboxed)
Personally when I send press releases for my sites I only use PRWEB, besides it cost and most PR sites do exactly the same thing by sending your release to the same media oulets. Personally I suggest one PR site and other artile directories.