Most Of Us Have Nothing To Worry About With Duplicate Content
Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Sunday, 10 of June , 2007 at 7:00 am
One of the biggest concerns for a lot of new webmasters is duplicate content. There are so many SEOs who talk about it that you would think it’s a huge issue. For most people, it really isn’t. The search engines are primarily concerned with people who are trying to game the system, or stealing content. That happens, unfortunately.
Duplicate content rules are not there to stop good and honest webmasters from building their content as they see fit. Rather, they are there to protect the innocent and “punish” the guilty. (To see a really good example of what I mean by “punish,” check out Vanessa Fox Nude’s pics of the good Willow vs. the evil Willow. I personally like the sweet and innocent Willow, especially the fuzzy sweater Willow, because it conjures up fantasies of school girls and free admission to Internet marketing conferences. OK, so it has nothing to do with punishment and I’m a sicko - but you knew that already.)
That ends the commercial break, though Vanessa is quite a looker herself.
OK, where was I? Yeah, duplicate content. If you are a webmaster that is slogging away at building content for your website, as long as you aren’t blatantly plagiarizing other people’s work, you probably don’t have anything to worry about. If you take articles from article directories on a regular basis then you might run into a problem after a while if you have nothing original on your website. If you cut and paste snippets of content on your blog from other blogs and websites then you definitely don’t have anything to worry about as long as you include some original content of your own alongside the borrowed content and you make sure that your original content is as long as what you borrowed. Otherwise, the real problem with duplicate content comes in when you deliberately take other content and rehash it without rewriting. It can be your content or someone else’s.
Some webmasters will put up several websites that deal with the same topic and they’ll use the same content without changing it on each of those websites. Those are the guys that Google is gunning for in its duplicate content rules. Guys like you and me who just see something we like and borrow it so that we can add our own two cents worth and make fools of ourselves, Google loves us. The only time they’re really concerned about our duplicate content is when we do something really stupid. But we’re not going to do that, are we?
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Comment by Chris McElroy aka NameCritic
Made Sunday, 10 of June , 2007 at 6:04 pm
It’s the definition of duplicate content that seems to confuse people. Pretty simple to understand really.
If all or the majority of your content is word-for-word from someone else’s website, it is stealing if you don’t have permission and it IS duplicate content and even if you do not get punished for it, it still will not help you. It won’t count as added content. Those keyphrases someone else wrote won’t help you get ranked in the search engines. At best it’s a 0. At worst, you get banned by the search engines.
At least take the time to write some original content to go with it even if you do have permission to use the content. If you use 100 words of text, write at least 150 words of original content to go with it. That is bare minimum and necessary if you want to use content from somewhere else.
That’s my opinion and I’m sticking to it. 
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