Comments on: Is Duplicate Content Worrying You? http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/09/19/duplicate-content-2/ Search Engine Optimization Journal is an SEO Blog that contains usefule articles, tips, resources and news about SEO. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:02:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lorraine Grula http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/09/19/duplicate-content-2/comment-page-1/#comment-67788 Lorraine Grula Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:26:27 +0000 http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/?p=7096#comment-67788 Thanks Nick. I have been sending out the same articles after I posted them. I'll stop doing that. Someone told me that as long as google knew you originated the content, because they saw it on your site first, then it was ok to send the article out. Guess they were wrong. Thanks Nick. I have been sending out the same articles after I posted them. I’ll stop doing that. Someone told me that as long as google knew you originated the content, because they saw it on your site first, then it was ok to send the article out. Guess they were wrong.

]]> By: Nick Stamoulis http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/09/19/duplicate-content-2/comment-page-1/#comment-67784 Nick Stamoulis Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:44:52 +0000 http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/?p=7096#comment-67784 Hi Lorraine, Sure thing, I am happy to answer your questions! :) I personally always prefer to write different content for different sources. For instance, I would never post the same article on 3 or 4 different sites. Although the changes of getting a penalty from that is slim, I would stay away as a best practice... Hi Lorraine,
Sure thing, I am happy to answer your questions! :)
I personally always prefer to write different content for different sources. For instance, I would never post the same article on 3 or 4 different sites. Although the changes of getting a penalty from that is slim, I would stay away as a best practice…

]]> By: Andy @ iNET SEO http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/09/19/duplicate-content-2/comment-page-1/#comment-67773 Andy @ iNET SEO Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:04:27 +0000 http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/?p=7096#comment-67773 Interesting point and one I had a discussion with a customer over. It seems they had been copying content and publishing it for many months and had around 65 static pages of this! They wanted to know why none of these pages were doing much for them. And they also noticed that their site traffic in general was down as their listings had slipped. If they would have told me about all this copied content, it could have saved a lot of work. But I for one, do believe that you are penalised to some degree if this is seen in quantity. Safest thing here is to just avoid it at all costs - it doesn't take that long to pen some content yourself, and if that is a problem, there are lots of document authors out there that can do the job for you. Andy Interesting point and one I had a discussion with a customer over. It seems they had been copying content and publishing it for many months and had around 65 static pages of this! They wanted to know why none of these pages were doing much for them. And they also noticed that their site traffic in general was down as their listings had slipped.

If they would have told me about all this copied content, it could have saved a lot of work.

But I for one, do believe that you are penalised to some degree if this is seen in quantity.

Safest thing here is to just avoid it at all costs – it doesn’t take that long to pen some content yourself, and if that is a problem, there are lots of document authors out there that can do the job for you.

Andy

]]> By: Lorraine Grula http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/09/19/duplicate-content-2/comment-page-1/#comment-67772 Lorraine Grula Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:53:54 +0000 http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/?p=7096#comment-67772 Hi Nick. Thanks, this helps, however, being the relative beginner than I am, I am not always sure exactly how "duplicate content" is actually defined. What about articles you post on your site and then send out via ezine or other article directories? What about having a "printer friendly version"? What about posts on the same topic that are just worded differently? Questions, questions! Thanks. Lorraine Hi Nick.
Thanks, this helps, however, being the relative beginner than I am, I am not always sure exactly how “duplicate content” is actually defined. What about articles you post on your site and then send out via ezine or other article directories? What about having a “printer friendly version”? What about posts on the same topic that are just worded differently?
Questions, questions! Thanks.
Lorraine

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