Hey guys I have a few Duplicate Content questions, what happened was that I made a few blogs recently and put feeds from similar blogs and thought I'd remove them in a day or two and then start putting in original stuff, I basically put the feeds to just start off the blogs. But someone just told me that even little duplicate content would kill the SERPs and would get Google to levy the Duplicate content penalty which would cause the site to get down in the SERPs So the questions are: (1) How does the duplicate content penalty work? (2) Will my blogs really die in the SE's because of these few articles that were duplicated? (3) How do I delete every article from a Wordpress blog without disturbing the settings etc.? (4) Does Google also penalize for duplicating "free" content? (5) Is there a way to reword articles? or to get around this? Thanks IT
Google will look for the original owner of the content by using the aging factor, the site on which the text first appeared. It will also apply the reputation factor such as PR. So if content appears on PR4 and PR8, then PR 4 is likely to suffer. Also, depends on how much dup content. One or two sentences may not hurt more than a whole paragraph. Google understands that people can quote others in their works. Sometimes, dup content penalties are reversible. I have seen sites come back after the dup removed. Depending on how much content you replicated, you may not be out of SERPs. Google penalizes dup content to protect authors.
Is it really a penalty? Or a filter? Because I have come to know from sources that its a filter and not a penalty, is that right? IT
If you use PLR, you better rewrite it to your own style. A bunch of people have used that exact same article, so not only would it not be too good for you SEO wise, but marketing wise it would not look good for you. Directories like ezinearticles.com don't let you use PLR articles.
PLR and Free Content and Content Scraping seems to be the latest trend these days, so many people are doing it, just check out the DP content forum, so much pre-made content is being sold and bought there by 100s of people, EVERYTHING becomes duplicate. The question is still unanswered, is this a penalty or a filter? and more questions in the first post itself Thanks IT