Duplicate content - how far do the penalisations go?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by GADOOD, Aug 17, 2005.

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    I have an website with original articles by myself, but also link to other articles from article banks.

    Currently www.mydomain.com links to:

    - 35 pages that contain original articles by myself, which link to pages eg. www.mydomain.com/original_article1.html

    - 23 pages that contain 'duplicate articles' from article banks, put on my own pages eg. www.mydomain.com/dup_article1.html

    Now.. thinking specifically about www.mydomain.com - do you think because I'm linking to dup articles this could be de-valueing the page on a whole, even though I link to the 35 original articles?

    Cheers,

    Pete
     
    GADOOD, Aug 17, 2005 IP
  2. yfs1

    yfs1 User Title Not Found

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    Duplicate content has nothing to do with penalties on the entire site. It has to do with whether the page gets indexed or not (With supplemental results being somewhere in between)

    You have nothing to worry about.

    Obviously there are considerations for getting the individual page to rank but it is not because of penalties, it is instead because if there are lots of copies out there, you are competing on a minimum of factors (Usually links, surrounding content, title, and url)
     
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    GADOOD Peon

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    Brilliant, thanks for clarifying that!

    Pete
     
    GADOOD, Aug 17, 2005 IP
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    also I have read that duplicate content is not only about text content but also about site layout, navigation, etc. I have seen many such "twin" sites in the Internet...

    I am also submitting my articles to many article sites, but as I was advised on this forum by a clever guy I place the articles on my own site before get them published anywhere else.
     
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  5. tltfaas

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    I think duplicate content penalties is more targeted to entire duplicate sites. There is another way of working around the issue that I found in a free e-book about "Article Wrapping." It's well worth downloading. The URL is:

    http://www.ebooks-made-easy.com/2reports.htm

    Hope this is useful!

    Bonnie Jo Davis
     
    tltfaas, Aug 29, 2005 IP