What Exactly Is Duplicate Content

[royal]

Hi,
If you write a unique un-spun article and submit it, say to Ezine Articles, your article will be copied and posted word for word on blogs, article directories, social networking and other sites. This is not duplicate content.

You can check this out for yourself. Go to Google and copy the exact contents of any article or product review appearing anywhere online. Paste the contents into the search bar. Do this within quotation marks to get an exact search match. When you click search you will find multiple results from many different websites containing this exact article word for word. So this shows that Google does not penalize duplicate content.

When you bookmark your article on social bookmarking sites, it will be distributed and will appear on scores of bookmarking sites like Digg, Reddit and Technorati to name a few. Social bookmarking will increase the number of back links to your site and is an excellent strategy to give your pages or site a high ranking and drive traffic there.

Sometimes you want your article to appear on someone's blog. You may have an agreement with the blog owner to submit only the original article, the subject of which you have researched. In this case you cannot post this article on other sites.

So what exactly is duplicate content?

When you post the same article on different pages of the same domain to manipulate the rankings and fool Google, this is duplicate content and Google will penalize you by not indexing your site altogether. It's no longer possible to fool Google, as they have developed advanced algorithms that can detect duplicate content. So don't try to rig the search results.

Google wants to give people only relevant results and does not want to show the same pages in the search results.

You can solve this problem of duplicate content by rewriting the whole article or getting a ghost writer to write articles for you. But first make sure that it is unique. There are also other ways to address the duplicate content issue which I will not discuss in this article.

[Abhi.garg]

Google doesn't allow to use duplicate contact in web site & article !
Google has disqualified to don't use duplicate contact !
If you're using duplicate contact ! It may create negative effect on your web site !

[neo127]

Due to this factor, most of article sites have lost their credibility and been penalized so just be aware with this factor too.

[bermuda]

It is essential these days to add only original content pages to the websites, trying to boost their values through posting unique and informative materials on them so that both people and search engines appreciate the works done by admins. Since the latest Google updates, websites with duplicate contents have experienced drops in the number of indexed pages and decrease in rankings which may seem natural actually because displaying copied materials does not add anything useful to the net.

It will take some time to write unique copies of materials and then post them on sites but the results would be very great compared with the time you were simply pasting the copied materials gotten from other sources. Google and other search engines would like to find original materials on pages of websites, rewarding them with better traffic shares and even finer rankings. By reading books, articles and materials found online, it is possible to write in a unique way, using your own skills.

[Pamelarossy]

Yes, Google is great and made such a superb spam controlling tools.

[John23]

I think duplicate means exact replicas. In other words if you do a video, then an article, then a blog on the same topic, but the content is not exactly identical, it is not duplicate content. copy and paste word for word is duplicate content.

On the other hand, Google doesn't penalize when you post first to your blog then to an article site even if it is nearly word for word, providing it is your own original content.

[Nile Hadwards]

Originally Posted by John23

I think duplicate means exact replicas. In other words if you do a video, then an article, then a blog on the same topic, but the content is not exactly identical, it is not duplicate content. copy and paste word for word is duplicate content.

On the other hand, Google doesn't penalize when you post first to your blog then to an article site even if it is nearly word for word, providing it is your own original content.

Yes you are absolutely right John23. I totally agree with you in this post.

[elmerkit]

Google panda was launched because of this duplicate contents its main role is to filter all site that has duplicate posting and content.

[Davidhudson]

Google not allow spin content also this is really spam works.

[Abhi.garg]

Exactly meaning of Duplicate Content is you visit a site a copy the content of that web site & paste in your web site & blog ! This conditions is called Duplicate content !