Duplicate Content Penalty SEO article updated March 2014 As an SEO expert who loves to use thin affiliate based content I have fallen foul of Google’s duplicate content filters way too many times, have the duplicate content penalty T-Shirt in multiple colours :( If you take anything away from the SEO discussion below, it’s NEVER, EVER, EVER add large amounts of duplicate content to important domains. Thin Affiliate Duplicate Content Over 5 years ago I had a really nice set of Amazon affiliate stores that used Amazon’s XML datafeed, prior to Google cracking down on thin affiliates for duplicate content: basically content created using the affiliates content with no added value, AKA duplicate content or thin affiliate content, my very […]
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Copying WebSite Content SEO?
Hi david,
I just want to ask something, I want to share some informative content through my site but that content is from other site. I put that content on my site and in footer I can put link that site for example “this content from www.example.com”.
So lease tell me is it ok or not?
regards,
Nishal
What is Duplicate Content Penalty?
Hi, I don’t really understand the concept of duplicate content. Is that the same text that you’re using, or same links in text.
1. If I use same text and links in my article, over and over (multiple press release sites), is that duplicate content?
2. If I use different text but same links in it, over and over (multiple press release sites), is that duplicate content?
Article EX 1: This is my demo, please listen to it www.itunes.com (10 pr sites same article)
Article EX 2: a)This is my demo, please listen to it www.itunes.com, b)listen to awesome jam www.itunes.com, c)what a great song www.itunes.com, d,e,f,g,h,i,j-all different(10 pr sites, only same link in text)
Please help me understand this…
What is Duplicate Content Penalty?
No Duplicate Content Penalty from Article Directories
Duplicate content is not within and of itself a penalty. Duplicate content exists across a wide range of sites and can be a good thing for the originating site. Its a great thing when google see’s 500 of the same article published on the internet, because it ranks the date those articles were published and gives precedence to the original website.
This is why duplicate content seems like a penalty. When you use content that has already been used in other places, you no longer get the benefits from it. Its like a vote for the original site. This is why its absolutely wonderful to publish articles on article directory sites, but not so wonderful to use the articles found on article directory sites.
There is so much confusion surrounding what duplicate content is, that I think more people need to get into the details because its not as obvious as one may think.
No Duplicate Content Penalty from Article Directories
XML Feed Duplicate Content SEO
I have a villa rental website with about 700 properties. Recently i have made collaborations with other rental portals and shared all property details ( photos, prices, descriptions etc) via an xml feed.
Is this classes by Google as copied content? How do hotels manage this when their info is the same on hundreds of websites?
Does that conflict SEO wise with the beauty of xml?
XML Feed Duplicate Content SEO
SEO Problem Duplicate Title Tags
Here, my issue is: in my site, I have to provide two pages with the same title tag, but these two pages are located at different folders. in this case does my site should have to pay penalty or any SEO problems would arise??
Duplicate Theme on two Different WebSites - SEO Penalty?
Hello,
I have two sites that you could never tell by looking at them that they are created from the same theme, or company.
The content covers the same issues as they are both in the same industry, but there is no content duplication.
Is this something that will hurt the Google ranking of either site?
Many thanks for your time in responding
My Bi Curious
Duplicate Theme on two Different WebSites - SEO Penalty?
Two Websites with Different Content
Hello,
I have two sites in the same industry… both have unique content although they are discussing the same matter.
As it turns out the two sites are built using the same wordpress theme… will this pose a Google Ranking problem?
Again, the content is different however they are both in the same industry.
Thanks for letting me know.
Mat
Two Websites with Different Content
Duplicate Theme Does NOT = Duplicate Content Penalty
Using the same theme is not duplicate content, the theme is structural (the HTML and CSS you don’t see on the page), for example I own around 130 domains and almost all of them run on WordPress using the Stallion Responsive SEO Theme, so the HTML and CSS is pretty much identical.
Many of my sites are in the SEO niche and as long as they have unique content Google will treat them as unique.
To simplify Google is likely to use a percentage measure of uniqueness, for the sake of argument let’s say if the entire page is 75% unique Google considers the PAGE unique. Google won’t care about the HTML and CSS that forms the site layout and look when it measures uniqueness, Google won’t look at a website and see a blue colored theme and consider it duplicate because other sites in the same niche use the same blue colored theme.
It’s the actual content where uniqueness matters, I don’t know what the % is and it won’t be this simple, but it make it easier to understand. If you look through almost any WordPress site they will tend to have duplicate sidebar widgets like categories, recent posts, etc… sitewide. So many webpages carry by default some duplicate content, the links to categories are the same, the links to recent posts are the same and Google won’t penalize for this type of duplicate content.
The rest of the content on a site will be unique, the main body content, the comments etc…
If you own two sites about search engine optimization like I do (own half a dozen) Google won’t consider them duplicate as long as all the articles are unique. The issue is when you copy content over two or more sites, that’s duplicate content.
That being said you can get away with a little duplicate content, for example doing something like this is OK:
I’ve copied a snippet of text (duplicate content) from another site of mine. Overall it’s a small fraction of the content on this webspage and Google will not penalize this site or webpage for a small snippet of duplicate content.
On the other hand if I copied the entire article or a significant amount of the content it might result in a duplicate content penalty.
David Law
Duplicate Theme Does NOT = Duplicate Content Penalty