Googles View on Duplicate content

Google's dislike of duplicate content is not a myth. It is a fact. Know it from first hand experience. It will become an issue only if there is content that is found on multiple, generic websites. I want to say it will probably need to measure in multiples of 10. And it isn't a penalty per say. Its more like a factor that neutralizes positive effects of otherwise good content, more than causes any damage.

 

What about sites like Digg.com that are pretty much made entirely of duplicate content?

It does suck though when the social bookmarking page outranks the original article.

 

True. Here's how Google de-indexes:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=12785ecb88b7436d&hl=en

Thus, nothing will hurt if you stay original on your contents and that you stay as the only owner yourself.

 

Guys, please understand this official statement from Google about dupe contents:

# Duplicate content doesn't cause your site to be penalized. If duplicate pages are detected, one version will be returned in the search results to ensure variety for searchers.
# Duplicate content doesn't cause your site to be placed in the supplemental index. Duplication may indirectly influence this however, if links to your pages are split among the various versions, causing lower per-page PageRank.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/06/duplicate-content-summit-at-smx.html

 

I totally agree. Duplicate content will catch up with you sooner or later.

Do not underestimate Google. I have seen FAR TOO many people rely on this "certainty" that Google can not tell which one was the original. In the beginning they simply might just index the page with the most relevant content to keywords and URL but sooner or later it will catch up to the copycat!!! Sure, there is NO duplicate content penalty, but why risk doing it?

I am not sure if what you mean by this is that you STEAL someone else's work to rank your sites. If this is the case YOU have no business doing business online. And I am not trying to be redundant here. If you can not come up with original content, provide your own quality work then you need to look elsewhere. Those of us who live off of our writing find what you are saying insulting. We work you benefit? Does not sound good at all!!!

I do not know if I am being too harsh, but hey I could not keep it to myself.

 

It was difficult to get ranking in google based search terms

 

Your comments are true, but are slightly misleading. I don't know if you did it purposely or not, but you seem to be indicating to others that Google doesn't do anything to a pace it discovers is duplicated from another site. And that's simply not true.

Google may not 'penalize' a page for duplicate content, and may not place you in their supplemental index, but it DOES de-index. That means it completely removes the site from Google altogether, and that's about as stiff a 'penalty' as you can get, in my opinion. Like I said before, they don't do it 100% of the time, but they DO de-index. Keep syndicating other sites, and you'll find out for yourself.

 

As well they should be removing duplicate content {which is PLAGIARISM like 95% of the time anyway} because I don't want to wade through 200 imitation sites when I'm looking for information on something. I don't think I'm the only one who just wants to have the source of the original information pop right up. I don't think anyone should be rewarded for copying and/or stealing other people's written words.

 

As far as Duplicate Article is concerned that I believe that Google does have any problem with Duplicate content if it's copy rights, but make sure don't use those articles with same title.

 

Exactly. Thanks for pointing that out. What you're going to see in the next few months is it will be a lot faster of a process so the duplicate site will drop off after a couple hours.

 

You simply need to be "5% unique"... do not just copy and paste, at least change the title and be 0.01% unique, lol.

 

The page with the content looses position over original, if it is a blog and has messages on it, it will continue to be indexed. The website does not get affected only affect is power of that page for keywords is not good anymore.

 

there is no any duplicate content in google, i have see many webiste sites only have duplicate content but rank well also.

 

I agree with GuruCreation. Duplication is just scare-mongering by so-called 'gurus' who want you to buy their article spinners and such. Also EzineArticles will periodically state that your article is too similar to someone else's, but that's just to keep you on your toes. Think about it, there are billions of sites online and there are bound to be similarities (i.e. recipe sites), so how do they decide who to 'punish'?