Things You Should Know about Duplicate Content Penalty

[best.hands]

For all we know, having duplicate contents could raise a penalty. I used to believe that as well, but after reading a post, it made more sense to call it a filter not a penalty. When you have a single page represented by two or more distinct URLs, people (especially seo newbies) say it can lead to a site penalty, but it just not. Search Engines, specifically Google, are doing their best to identify which of the duplicates can represent the others in the SERPs, so making other dupes disappear, or shall I now say filtered. And that made sense since what's the use of ranking two different URLs representing a single source in the same query? It could bring up bad user experience. In fact, Matt Cutts introduced the idea a little differently by calling it "host crowding" - http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google...s-google-2011/ - Moreover, Google made it easy for us to tell their crawling agents we're consciously having dupe contents in our site by using rel="canonical" tag.

A penalty exist though, but only given to proven spammers. Learn the difference between a filter and a penalty.

[atari]

There are filters, penalties and blacklists.

The problem with duplicate content is you'll see half of your pages dropped from the index, and you have no control over which pages remain and which go. It seems like a penalty since your pages have gone away, but you're correct in saying it's just a filter.

Google introduced new meta-tags (as a test at this point) to point out where the original version lives. So you can post someone else's content (with their permission) and use this tag to tell google that this is not the original.

[best.hands]

Google introduced new meta-tags (as a test at this point) to point out where the original version lives. So you can post someone else's content (with their permission) and use this tag to tell google that this is not the original.

Interesting..

With this update, I think google will have more control over reputation assignment on web pages. But, I wonder then what Google will do with pages declared having copied contents from a source in terms of link juice passing from page to page. And with this update active, will google now penalize a site with a copied content without using the 'new' meta-tags? Hmmm.. I am seeing even more advantage going to the owner of the original content, which is good of course, but what if you are operating an Article Directory site which is basically prone to dupe contents.

[CoopersPick]

Yup you just have to have unique content instead of content farms as the recent algo changed smacked a lot of BH's but you dont get penalized for a little here and there you just dont get ranked if your not the relevant and original source.

[casinobonuseslisting]

thats some interesting information. but it is convincing.

[davenewgates]

Interesting, i agree with wildnettechnologies give time in having this kind of post more often. Its benefiting.

[jctroy440]

You must put into perspective that there are 3.5 Gazzillion (a lot) of online casino sites, portals and casino landing pages that all are exactly the same. Some rate high while others are never found. This is because Google uses duplicate content along with [B]200 other[B]factors to determine SERP's and page rankings.

Many affiliates offer pre-made landing pages such as Renee at Rewards Affiliates. If Google was so strict then none of these pages would ever show up on a SERP and I have two that are climbing on a daily basis.

I've had pages show up on the first page and wondered why while others never seem to make it past slot 253 or so. Don't get too hung up on one aspect of the big picture.