There's no such thing as a "duplicate content penalty."
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...t-penalty.html

I was surprised when i read that google does not penalized those site that contain duplicate contents....but google really look serious in appending this issue! by the way thanks for the link!

Originally Posted by djura

There's no such thing as a "duplicate content penalty."
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...t-penalty.html

Originally Posted by johnlloyd

I was surprised when i read that google does not penalized those site that contain duplicate contents....but google really look serious in appending this issue! by the way thanks for the link!

Should we assume you didn't read the very first post?

I posted link to their article about "Google duplicate content penalty", which is somehow different but related to this thread and first post. I think that it is worthy to have this link here, since there are so many speculations is there penalty or not or...

Yep, agreed, the later article is worth linking to.

What I refer to and it's not just you and the following post that both seem to be announcing "there is no duplicate content penalty".

since there are so many speculations is there penalty or not or...

The original article is almost TWO YEARS OLD now! There are so many "SEOs" (using the term very loosely) who are always rabbiting on about "update your site regular", "what is latest trick for SEO" , "Is updation (sic) of blog important"
YET it's the same people who go on about duplicate content "penalties"!

HEY!! if updation (sic) of your blog is important and your link begging has to be "prioritized" (whatever that means), then how about keeping up with the useful stuff instead of giving us your 1999 pearls of wisdom such as "get more links", exchange link with relative site theme" etc.

Two years on you think the message would have sunk in by now, but NO! The only voices that seem to be heard are the "experts" with their heads stuck firmly up their own rectal orifices and broadcasting "wisdom" that wasn't even accurate back in the Internet stone age.


( i can feel another "blog" rant coming on )

Originally Posted by chrishirst

how about keeping up with the useful stuff instead of giving us your 1999 pearls of wisdom such as "get more links", exchange link with relative site theme" etc.

This forum is:"The Google forum", the sticky is: "The OFFICIAL word from Google on duplicate content ", the post is a quote from official Google webmaster central blog and with link to that article. Therefore I find that information useful especially when there are so many people discussing this, but they can easily see newest info from Google. My point is why speculate, when you can get info from authorities, on these stuff at least...

I didn't find your last comment in place because John and I didn't mention any "1999 pearls of wisdom" in quoted posts.

You totally miss my point!

You make a post IN A TWO YEAR OLD THREAD announcing

There's no such thing as a "duplicate content penalty."

when the very first post in thread already says this and the quoted Google thread makes it clear, FROM TWO YEARS AGO. Then along follows johnlloyd with

I was surprised when i read that google does not penalized those site that contain duplicate contents....

It's been common knowledge for TWO YEARS!! how on earth can you be surprised at TWO YEAR OLD NEWS???
We have threads here several times a week where we tell people that there is no "duplicate content penalty"

Have you missed them all? At HighRankings forum there is about same amount of threads stating "no duplicate content penalty" and citing the Google blog. I guessed you missed them as well.
This obviously being the case, as you apparently have only just discovered this astounding fact, you must be reading at other places where they don't mention this startling news, or they choose NOT TO dispel these myths and actually tell people the real facts.

THAT is what my point is, not whether you personally "dispense 1999 wisdom" or not.

Yeah, "It's been common knowledge for TWO YEARS!!", that is why now and then you can see posts that contain: "...that can be duplicate content penalty...bla,bla,bla." I've seen this in this forum recently....
I am reading this forum for 4 years now, I am aware of this thread and its posts, but you must agree that if you see thread: "The OFFICIAL word from Google on duplicate content" and "There's no such thing as a "duplicate content penalty.", what do you think will give the right message to the ones that obviously didn't know that??
I don't read HighRankings forum....

I don't know if i explained that clearly, you can ask me if you need more info, but i really hope anyone has some experience with that. I would be glad if i could solve this without changing the contents/structure of the site much, however i could do that too if needed.

By the way, i have some mess with my title tags, they are also being duplicated in a few places. Starting to feel a bit lost in all this charade

Yes, but the pages which have the Duplicate content may not appear on the search results from: http://www.google.com/support/webmas...s&topic=&type=

We have to restrict our content from the robots.?????
If we restrict our content, it is useful only for the users.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...e-content.html


NOTE: There is NO duplicate content penalty

We have to restrict our content from the robots.?????
If we restrict our content, it is useful only for the users.

WHAT!!!!!!! rest of expletives deleted

ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU HAVE CONTENT FOR!!!!

This is surely a great read. Many webmasters and SEO's are having different ideas on the matter. Well now i guess everyone will be enlightened about the DUP' Issue.

Thanks for posting that announcement. I guess that's another reason to keep up with Google's blog. They are great about keeping us users informed.

can anyone help define duplicate content? if i copy other site's article and change its title and first, last paragraph. then will google treat it as identical to original content?

Maybe maybe not, but in any case it's copyright theft.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Maybe maybe not, but in any case it's copyright theft.

Sorry for that, I did not really mean that when I said copy others articles, sometimes we have to quote others article and of course we would provide a link to the source. And I do not think it's right to show our readers the same content twice or more, even though they do not mind.

When are you write duplicate content on your site so its bad impression in Google.
So,be aware.....

Location: USA - really? with such a bad English?

Originally Posted by mobilegame

Sorry for that, I did not really mean that when I said copy others articles, sometimes we have to quote others article and of course we would provide a link to the source. And I do not think it's right to show our readers the same content twice or more, even though they do not mind.

Well, quoting is fine, as long as you are not quoting an entire article. There are fair use copyright laws, meaning if you use a quote fairly, like to comment on it or for academic purposes, then there's not penalty for that.

Back to duplicate content, I think it's good in general to avoid it unless absolutely necessary, even if there is not penalty for it. Just because readers can pick up on that and it doesn't really make your case or argument or service any stronger by being redundant about it. Unless you do it craftily, by keep the same message, but essentially re-writing it.

I have seen sites rank with exactly the same content, yet, they ranked on different sets of keywords. The original was ranking on the main keywords and the other one more on the longtails