What does Google do about duplicate content? I posted my entire wrestling fanfic on a message board, but now I want to move my entire fanfic to my website, so I'm going to post the exact article that I hand-typed onto my website... My wrestling fanfic is called the Batista Blog! Search engines have probably no way of finding out that I wrote the original fanfic, so what will happen to me for adding the duplicate content to my website? Will my SEO score deduct or something. Or do the positives outweigh the negatives? -- also, does submitting my articles to article directories after posting the content on my website 'cause the original articles on my website to be labeled as duplicate content? That would suck. Definately...
Duplicate content only hurts you if it's on the same domain name, not different domain names... if you want one site to rank higher than the other with the same content, simply just point more links to it. Never post the same content on your website to other articled directories, always create unique content.
I see, thank you So I wouldn't need to delete my wrestling fanfic on that forum to add it to my website. Sounds like a plan! Also, if I point links from my website to another article in my website does that count to adding the SEO score of that page, thanks.
I have two sites that suffered because I did not make them unique enough. There is a website that tells you what content is considered duplicate. I checked with that and made some changes.