In promoting my blog in several other places (mostly forums), I sometimes copy & paste a blog post with a link to it in that thread. The main focus is to get linkbacks (permalinks in forum threads). This kind of creates duplicate content, though the duplicate is in a message board. Still, I've noticed that because these sites rank higher than mine, when I search for the topic, it will bring up that forum thread (which does link back to my site) rather than my site. I also don't want issues with AdSense for having almost identical content in multiple locations. Any ways around this? I need to actually post content rather than just links in these forums (due to their rules). I was thinking of either changing the titles slightly, maybe having a 'read more' link (though that may break some of their rules), or not copying & pasting every blog entry (just select ones)? To be fair, this is bringing in ever-increasing traffic to my blog, so maybe I just need to stick with it for a while as I build up traffic and then break off? Suggestions?
I would personally create an additional bit of unique content to place on forums. That being said, you shouldn't get penalized for what you are doing, Google knows where the content was first posted (your blog), so any time it crawls content elsewhere it will not that as being the duplicate content. Obviously it wont hurt the forums because they normally have thousands of different topics with individual and mostly unique content.
How do you suggest? I'm going to try and do a synopsis + link, that should make it easier. The problem than I'm running into is when I type in a direct topic headline into Google, if it's in 2 areas (my blog and a forum), it will pull up the more popular forum's post and completely ignore mine.
The forum model usually gets good priority in Google, so don't copy and paste content of the blogpost to the forums. If you want get backlinks or traffic from forums to your blog (or blogpost), make sure to provide unique content (which link to your blog and be different from your blog) at forums.
Same question was in my mind since long. But there are many blogs/forums which copy paste our unique content, what about those.. I have seen one forum which copy all content word to word from digitalpoint..but dp is famous. But what about my website..???
If you are having problems with this one, maybe you can try article spinners for this issue. I think you've heard of it and It'll be a great help.
Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely match other content or are appreciably similar. Mostly, this is not deceptive in origin.
Thanks for the replies. I've changed practices since then. I guess it was kind of common sense but wanted some additional feedback on proper backlinking.
You need unique content than duplicate content, as google will rank your site lower if you have duplicate content, and googlebot will less often crawl your website as your site comprises of duplicate content.