Many of us asking yourself, does dupe content can hurt your sites or not. You can not say directly, that it can hurt, why? because, Just take an example: you have two sites with same content, one site with PR 5 and many backlinks and second one with PR 1 with little backlinks, ( in most cases why it's low on PR or backlinks, just because it's just new site). So, you google your search for the terms you think will return your sites. And what you see, that only one of your site page got return to your request. Why not both? very simple, One is less important then another with lower PR. Does dupe content hurt your second site? Not really, just waste of your time. There is great value or having ability to create multiple sites with same products or service, just don't dupe 100 %, simple changes in Meta tags, Title, and keywords, will make your inner pages already different from your 1 site. Make every site Unique in some way. Don't just dupe and you will think it's Fast way to make more money. Great sample of this CSN stores.. they have 5 or 6 sites with the same Products Title, Keywords and descriptions. They all maybe indexed by google for the same product, but only 1 will come up in search for search terms. The most VALUABLE for google. so, i in conclusion, Google don't hurt you, when you dupe, YOU hurting your self, when not following Google rules. thanks all, any replies appreciates.
Yes really good information. If you are using dup content and not following google rules, you are hurting your self and wasting your time. Content always King for the website.
I think google doesn't mind on duplicate content, What it does is prioritize one on other. It's nice idea if you want to capture market for a targeted keyword.
From what I read on unique content it's ok as long as you don't have 2 pages with the same content on your own website. If you take an article from another website and post it into yours there's absolutely no problem with Google. Just don't overdo it (aka autoblogs and rss feed sites). And you can always take an article from somewhere else and add a couple paragraphs telling your point of view on it.
well, as one of reply guys stated, it's all about content. Google will be give "respect" for unique content, than for just copy and paste from another source. Many of web site owners, think, that if they create site and copy some articles from another sites, so, they site will become popular, no way it will happen. Same way Google become so wealthy, you can become with Google, if follow and out smart others. I tested my self few my own sites and make small changes in meta tags for the same products sold on different sites. change Order of the working in Title will make your title unique for google, because, it return different results for different search terms. unique content is a simple solution for success to find more natural traffic.
Duplicate content or not, its no problem for me. Boost your site with natural Backlinks "relevant keyword and good ranks"
It's interesting how the 'debate' about duplicate content has followed the model established by the 'content spinning' debate. Initially, everyone poo pood it. Then the leading edge marketers adopted it. Then teh wannabees joined in, leaving only a few naysayers. Then pretty much EVERYBODY came on board. The dupe content issue is so freakin obvious, you have to wonder why in h*ll anyone ever bothered to try and argue against it. If duplicate content had any value, there'd only be ONE page on the web. And 40 billion duplicates.
duplicate content can be caused by competitors too, so it's hard to tell from search engine end, who's duplicating who.