Hi folks, There is a popular myth about duplicate content, and that is that Google penalizes sites for having duplicate content. Greg Grothaus of the Search Quality Team of Google cleard that Google itself is not penalizing you for it. Google recognizes that most duplicate content is not created to be deceptive. There are of course exceptions, which are considered spam. They're being penalized for being spam but not for having duplicate content. There are some issues that can arise that may negatively affect your rankings. 1) Your link popularity will be diluted. Backlinks pointing to several different URL versions(like domain.com, www.domain.com, domain.com/index.htm) of the same content, will make it harder to accumulate link juice for one URL. 2) User-unfriendly URLs in search results may offset branding efforts and decrease usability as well. 3) With multiple versions of the same thing, Google will spend more time crawling the same content, meaning it will have less time to go deeper into your site, and you run the risk of having content not get indexed. More interesting reading at webpronews
Hello.. I guess ya didnt bother to read the threads... this topic is being dicussed already http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1501870 laterz M1
Hey... Sorry dear... I was just reading it on webpronews and thought to share some important points over here.
Fiuhh .. Thanks GOD .. This thread are really relief me .. And I guess that it's true .. There's no problem with duplicate content .. My blogs are OK with it .. Some get high position on SERP .. The isues change into "is it legal for you to duplicate the content?"
Duplicate content is bad, end of story. By having duplicate content some pages on your site will not get indexed, you will have a high volume of supplemental listings (that don't show up in google searches) and it will treat your site like an non-authoritive site. Plus why will people link to your duplicate versions of a story? Stop being lazy and write your own content!
You should avoid duplicate content if possible. As it will not get you penalized but may affect your crawl rate. If there is a compulsion of using old content then use meta canonical tag for that page.
It all depends on what you are using the content for. If you are using it for spam like article spinning than google will figure it out but think about some of the sites out there that gather content from other places and have high page rank.
I don't think Google penalizes these sites. In some field, like games, ton of websites have the same games, even big game sites still get games from other smaller games sites.
hmmm .. make sense .. and there's many other example .. something like lyrics site .. or mp3 site ..... they had a lot of duplicate content .. and google seems ok with it ..
Spiders can't "read". They count digits, report back to their masters how many digits you have. That's all they do.
the bit everyone is missing from that cast is the bit where he confirms that google wants 'diversity in the serps'. In other words, of course there is no 'penalty'. There doesn't need to be one. the FILTERS weed out the dupes. I.e. duplicate content is worthless. Obviously. Go to google, search for 'credit cards'. Or 'acne'. Or any other monetizable term. then come back here with some pages that are filled with dupes. Which of course you won't.
I've said this before and has been proven pretty much that spiders don't actually "read" anything. So how could they know what is duplicated and from where. You honestly believe Google cares that much anyway? That's delusional thinking for sure. They care about owning ALL of the data they steal and mine. That's their game, not who copies what... I doubt that they care that much.
This New Matt Cutts Video released today should shed some light on this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNnMaYViYHc
Blah, blah, blah. blah... And drone on and on and on... It's all relatively useless information. They are LYING if they claim to know the difference between one page and another considering there are probably 500 million Terabytes of data entering the Internet daily! It is simply a scare tactic! Governments and the Internet are fear based. Google WANTS you to FEAR them and that way they can CONTROL what you put on your website and how you put it on there so that it fits their version of what is right or wrong. I didn't buy a word that guy said. It reminded me of the many mind-numbing corporate meeting circuit junkets I have been on in my life. B.O.R.I.N.G. and useless blah, blah. Scare me some more ... Please!
I don't think unique content have a real effect in SERP but fresh, quality and unique content does add to your site reputation and helps in many other way also.