Duplicate Content Is Not BAD for SEO!

Duplicate content issues are for whining SEO copywriters, that's why webmaster SEO is still the king and profitted from them since day 1. The SE are still far behind having the correct algo to filter the mess completely, and for the time being everyone is still reaping from dups, but who knows tomorrow? next month? next year?

I am also waiting for the time when the real copycats whine too, that'll be fun cause I won't whine, I already made too much money off myself than worry about this thing. I must admit I dup a lot of content back in my early days, now I am wiser and going into a cleaner articles written through outsourcing. Clears my conscience a bit you know and keeps away the DCMA emails lolz

 

Google is not AI. Google doesnt know who made what and when, to do that it would need to have real time bots, and indexing it would take huge resources. It refers your own website. People think Google is some higher entity.

 

i've seen entire sites made of duplicate content thrown out of the index. so it can't be good.

 

well, please take a look at here:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/duplicate-content-due-to-scrapers.html

and

http://www.vanessafoxnude.com/2008/05/14/ranking-as-the-original-source-for-content-you-syndicate/

google already said that the duplicate site will not ranking higher than the original .

 

By that argument, you should copy Google. Just make a search engine in your spare time. Bam. Instant pagerank 10.

(sarcasm)

 

the amount of retardation in this forum and thread here lately is insane.

 

Nobody really knows how it all works. I mean, if you were trying to lower someone elses SEO rank, you would create a bunch of sites and use their content. I wouldn't think Google would allow someone else to potentially control your ranks. This scenario isn't likely to happen, but it's possible.

 

Duplicate content is bad for SEO, but good for SEM

 

I agree with you completely there.



I'm not a proponent of duplicate content being better than original by any means.

 

The biggest thing about duplicate content is that you have control over what is kept from search engine spiders. Use duplicate content for users, but exclude bots by using your robots.txt effectively.

That is what the robots.txt is for. If you leave duplicate content for the engines to determine which is priority, chances are they will select a competitor.