My blog articles2u.com started on April, 2007. I accept more than 300 articles from other authors. All of published articles - duplicate (already published in other site). I stop accepting articles from other authors and start to post my own articles from Jan 2008. Now my blog have 620 articles (including duplicate). End of Dec 2008 my blog penalized by google, my traffic from google reduced to 800 to 30 per day. I am not done any illegal activity for getting penalty from Google. My webmaster tool statistics page/ top search queries shows my keywords in good place (no change), but in SE I am not see my blog page that position and traffic reduced. Google penalize for duplicate articles? I will plan delete all duplicate articles (all article indexed on google). If I delete all duplicate articles it creates any problem for future SEO. (PR, Index, Ban by google). Please provide your idea to solve my problem. Thanks in advance Sarpras Navas
Oh, that is very weird and also a little bit interesting. Can Google penalize you for republishing articles?
they don't 'penalize' you as such, they just don't bother ranking you for it. You're probably still in the index, round about position 500 or so. Unless you've been contravening their guidelines in some other way, like link exchanges or something.
I think google penalize for republishing articles. I am not do any link exchange, i follow all guidelines of google. Oh, I add some blog post url with keyword (now removed) in forum signature, to increase SE ranking.
Thats wired. I'd suggest you to remove the duplicate contents and then see that results. You can always resotre them back if you see no changes in SERP within 6 months.
Hi, form the google guidelines it seems that google do not mind a small amount of reproduction of material but will punish a site the has wholesale duplication. The best results on google are for unique content! Dave
Thanks good... My traffic from google SE get back once again... I am not delete any article and i am not found any reason to my traffic down.
you don't have to remove those articles.. jus spin them.... but they do punish but not much.. thats if you have strong backlinks.
I think you have probably been penialised for the duplicate content as since xmas Google has changed their algorithms and cutting down hard on spam on the net and trying to clean out all duplicate content. My advise is to remove all your duplicate articles and start building new articles and and ask for a reinclusion ans see what happens after a couple of months
Google doesn't penalize sites for duplicate content. Search some song lyrics and you'll see how well can duplicate content rank.
Google dont penalized for duplicate content. But google will not give important for duplicate content. all duplicate content will be go into sub-index, not in main index. And if you have submitted article for link building then the article which is duplicate according to google. then such article not give you any SERP benefits.
I am curious what does 'small' amount mean. I don't want to be rude but it's not very precise word...