SEO Tycoon

**fattaah** · 05:21 AM

Duplicate content – multiple URL with the same content and identical home page with the same content. The penalty applied to "duplicate" sites is that only the original version of the page gets listed in the search engine and the duplicates content don't get listed at all.i have just got a information from a discussion forum on the dupticate content and want to share with you.

http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/...eo-for-google/

thanks

**chrishirst** · 03-25-2010, 05:20 AM

there is NO duplicate content penalty

**Sierra Charlie** · 03-25-2010, 08:14 AM

Though there's no penalty, duplicate content means that you might have little chance of getting any rankings. (btw, I know this can be challenged. But I leave that part to keep the status quo) So no penalty doesn't mean that you can copy it. You copy it and you pay for it. Fair enough plagiarists!

**bigcat1967** · 03-25-2010, 12:00 PM

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So no penalty doesn't mean that you can copy it. You copy it and you pay for it. Fair enough plagiarists!

Agreed. A lot of ppl think they can copy articles and then get surprised when someone sues them. Idiots...

**aadam** · 03-25-2010, 01:06 PM

Just dont have duplicate content in the first place?

**samatha** · 03-29-2010, 05:30 AM

Handling duplicate content within your own website can be a big challenge.. I suggest you implement the rel="canonical" link element on your pages where you can..It can give you a better understanding of your site and preferred URLs.

**webcreationuk** · 03-29-2010, 06:59 AM

I didn't know that post from Google blog, thanks for pointing to it Chris.

**vendarjonshan** · 03-30-2010, 04:04 AM

now many search engine automatically detect duplicate content and not index on their data base. you have to keep updated your site with quility content.

**Advertise** · 03-31-2010, 04:27 PM

THIS TOPIC is the NEVER ENDING STORY of internet marketing. I swear that in the past five days I have seen this issue being brought up in every single forum I belong to. It really bugs me when some beginners (I may be new to this forum but not to others and to IM) repeat everything they read and the context gets completely inverted.

PEOPLE get it once and for all, there is no duplicate content penalty. HOWEVER, I have to things to add:
1- If you feel the need to have to copy someone else's work, then you should not be doing this. Go find yourself other means of generating income. Plagiarism is a punishable offense under copyright laws. SO DO NOT DO IT.
2- As someone else said in this thread, and as a GOOGLE exec recently stated, most search engines will index/rank the first article or site with a specific content and will weigh the relevance of the keywords and content; then the rest of the sites or articles with the same content will be filtered out. Maybe people misinterpret this filtering out with a penalty. WHO knows?!?!

Truth is there is no penalty. MORALLY you should not copy! LEGALLY you can not plagiarize!!!!!

**francis84** · 03-31-2010, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Sierra Charlie

Though there's no penalty, duplicate content means that you might have little chance of getting any rankings. (btw, I know this can be challenged. But I leave that part to keep the status quo) So no penalty doesn't mean that you can copy it. You copy it and you pay for it. Fair enough plagiarists!

That is right, the website itself will not suffer, but its ranking will.

**jasontn** · 09:16 PM

I would check all my pages at copyscape.com Anyways, writing material for some niches isn't pleasant but necessary. However, it can be educational.

**limousinechicag** · 04-01-2010, 03:40 AM

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

there is NO duplicate content penalty

You are right Chris,

Many people are still believing to this SEO Myth but the truth is there is a duplicate penalty. In fact, some people say that it can bring traffic to your site.

**mack123** · 04-01-2010, 07:22 AM

I have also heard that Google doesn't give any priority to duplicate content. I have seen many site those have same content. But i would like to know that how Google determine that which particular site has duplicate content.

**weblover50** · 04-03-2010, 05:46 AM

Is it bad? Yes, it can be, from a search engine perspective. A lot of it depends on how much of your total site is replicated content, and how much is exclusive content.

**expertz** · 04-03-2010, 07:45 AM

Always check content in copyscape.com, Google can spam your site.

**Social-Media** · 04-03-2010, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by samatha

Handling duplicate content within your own website can be a big challenge.. I suggest you implement the rel="canonical" link element on your pages where you can..It can give you a better understanding of your site and preferred URLs.

I suggest you implement 301 redirects to fix canonicalization issues causing duplicate content. The canonical link element should ONLY be used as a last resort for handling duplicate content issues due to URL canonicalization issues i.e if you CAN'T implement 301 redirects for some reason. Why? Because ONLY Google has implemented code after nearly 2 years to support it. MS and Yahoo! "said" they were going to support it, but last I heard a few months back Google is the only one to actually have implemented support for it. ALL 3 search engines (and almost every search engine on the planet) support 301 redirects to fix such problems.

And as ChrisHirst said, there is NO SUCH THING as a duplicate content penalty. Penalties keep you from ranking on page 1 even if Google thinks you should be in #1 position. But instead your URL gets forbidden from ranking better than 30, 50, 60, 350, 950, etc. once placed under penalty until whatever got you penalized has been fixed.

Duplicate content can rank in position 1 and often outranks the original version of the content, even if it is copied months after Google indexed the original. It just means that the duplicate content scores lower on those ranking factors that are content based. But the duplicate content can compensate for the low scores on ranking factors based on content by scoring higher on other ranking factors like inbound links, PR, etc. By having more and better inbound links than the original, duplicate content can easily outrank the original.

And if 3 copies of the same content (the original and 2 duplicates) have scores high enough to rank on page one, the version with the highest overal ranking score (regardless of whether its the original or one of the duplicates) shows up on page one and the other two will get filtered out and not shown.

**williammurray** · 04-06-2010, 04:13 AM

Google's policy about duplicate content is quite dubious. Sometime they penalize and sometime they dont.

**chrishirst** · 04-06-2010, 06:17 AM

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Originally Posted by williammurray

Google's policy about duplicate content is quite dubious. Sometime they penalize and sometime they dont.

No it is NOT "dubious" at all.

There is no penalty they FILTER out the least "important" copies.

**ugoodibetter** · 04-18-2010, 10:07 PM

Having duplicate content will not get you penalized. But you might lose the chance of getting indexed by SE since they grasp and index what they think is original.