Duplicate Content, the myth drags on,
and on and on and on!
Almost 2 years ago this post was published on the Official Google Webmaster Blog, and pointed out that duplicate pages are filtered out
Quoted text :: from:- Google
During our crawling and when serving search results, we try hard to index and show pages with distinct information. This filtering means, for instance, that if your site has articles in "regular" and "printer" versions and neither set is blocked in robots.txt or via a noindex meta tag, we'll choose one version to list. In the rare cases in which we perceive that duplicate content may be shown with intent to manipulate our rankings and deceive our users, we'll also make appropriate adjustments in the indexing and ranking of the sites involved. However, we prefer to focus on filtering rather than ranking adjustments ...
Note the use of the word "filtering", not removing or penalising.
The same information is also on the Duplicate Content page on the Webmaster Help section of Google support.
So with this information freely available from the very people who are supposedly "punishing" the poor hapless webmasters who are going about their business of writing "articles" and submitting them everywhere (See also Article Directories! why do they exist? ) and then wondering why their own site doesn't appear anywhere in the search engines, wouldn't it make sense for them to actually go and use the very medium they are supposedly concerned about and search at Google for Search Google for duplicate content instead of going to every forum they know about and posting yet another "My site is being penalised for duplicate content" thread.
If Google themselves tell you there is no duplicate content penalty, TAKE THEIR WORD FOR IT!! Rather than reading some random "article" by some "expert" trying to convince you to buy their "services"
AND if you are still not convinced go and read Demystifying the "duplicate content penalty" and understand what Google are telling you!
This article was added by Chris Hirst and was posted on 27 September 2008. Chris has been a member since 09 January 2008 and has written 29 article(s) for modTalk
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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