We have recently entered into the "blog" world online in a better effort to reach our customers. Since our new blog has little traffic, we have been taking our postings on this site, and copying and pasting them into another larger site with lots of traffic that also hosts blogs for free, in an effort to provide better exposure. Will Google penalize this duplicate content? Our interest is to maximize exposure to our customers... many thanks!
It is a bad idea to duplicate content like that. Google will likely only give you credit for one instance of each piece of content. You should just pick one blog to promote rather than trying to promote 2 identical blogs. They won't penalize your main website for this, but it could get one of those blogs (or possibly even both) penalized. Google is fine with a small amount of duplicate content. When an entire website's content is copied, Google has no choice but to get rid of one of those copies to clean up their results.
Hey CincySEO, I would highly recommend you stop doing it, as it may result in penalty imposition on your new blog.
My take is that it isn't a good idea for SEO because of what was mentioned above. The second post won't likely get indexed. That said, there is duplicate content everywhere on the web in the form of syndicated news. As long as you know you're not adding SEO value, I wouldn't worry about it. That said, I would mix in a lot of other content that isn't duplicate as well.
Anything that "might" be spam will get you penalized by google. Double posts, over pinging....things like that get your killed.
Google has an answer for your question: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66359
yes .. you can not duplicate all contents .. but I have another question in mind if you dont agree to post same article on multiple blogs then why we submit same article in multiple directories? and why do you submit press releases to multple press releases sites?
Ideally Google is just a playing as an big index page, sort of like a bibliography, and there can only be one mastermind website containing the content. Google would most likely penalize your website containing duplicate content because it Google detects duplicate content that it has already have crawled. They just want to get the best original best from the original origin, it is as simple as that. You can always put the meta tag, robots no index, so if you do decide, one site can have the content and not be penalized, but the other with the meta tag will no longer be crawled in the search engines.
yes it do. I have read many posts and articles on it. Duplicate postings in the same blog. And having same title.
yes it does. at least they have done it with one of my websites, which did receive over 5000 unique visitors every day. :-(