questions about duplicate content....

hello everyone just a quick questions about duplicate content..

1. sometimes when people send an entry to social bookmarking sites such as digg, reddit, sphinn, they just copy the first paragraph of the article to the description part... Does search engine specifically google have a problem w/it?

2. Shoemoney republishes articles from techcrunch.. Although he states it, its still duplicate content right?

Thanks
Melvin

 

Yes to both of your questions. Google will pick one of the copies as the "original" and drop the other pages from their index.

 

Techcrunch probably receives more hits from shoemoney's blog than from SE traffic on that specific page/blog post, so I'm guessing they don't care about Shoe dupeing their content. As long as its not done on a constant basis and if it's on a trustworthy site, I doubt it will be a problem.

 

ok thanks for the info....

 

B.S. that if you have an article that is duplicate, such as shoemoney posting techcruch articles, that big G will drop one of the two from their index. Content get's posted all the time, and many, many times the same content get's indexed on tons of different sites! Anybody who buys into the idea that if you post something that is posted anywhere else it will never be indexed...if you have the same article posted twice on your own site, maybe it will only be indexed once. It's been my experience that the duplicate content filter was created for that purpose, and to aide in the detection of scraper sites comprised ONLY of dupe content.

Just my opinion

 

there's duplicate content all over the web. just look at newspaper sites which run countless numbers of the same wire stories...

back to the question, it's fine to have SOME duplicate content, just don't overdo it. don't make a site that's 80% filled with duplicate content. but if it's say 15% you'd probably be okay.

 

ah so Google won't penalized a site if it isn't doing it a lot? how bout social bookmarking sites?

 

If it's just your opinion, why call the B.S. card? If you're going to call it, base it on proven facts. And the proven fact is that most of the dupe content ends up in the supplmental index and it's not always the site that copies it that gets there.

 

yes friend you are Rite............

 

My experience of duplicate content across mutliple websites is that isn't necessary the original the is higher in the SERPs... a lot of it seems to be done to the authority of the website rather than distinctions between the originator and copier...