Google's Duplicate Content Penality has been creating a lot of buzz around the Internet for a long time, while most of SEO experts I know of totally believe it's truth, others, like me know by practice that it might just be a Myth. From my experience, google just wouldn't show duplicate content on the same keyword query but if you are using duplicate content to generate backlinks, and use your anchor texts wisely, it still helps your ranking for those keywords. To me, if you want to rank well on google, you just need loads of quality backlinks using decent amount of variations or anchors texts from site on unique IPs, if those sites you got backlinks from also are in the same niche with yours, that's great. But related or not, just go get backlinks whenever you could (don't do that on the same site though), and if you can, remember "globe recogition"! Anyway, I think i'm a bit off topic by now, just go to this post written by Chris Crum to see the official and detailed explanation from Greg Grothaus of the Search Quality Team.
Just in case you miss the embedded link, refers to this direct link: http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/09/16/google-busts-the-duplicate-content-myth
What do you think? Still believe in Unique Content Only?
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| Talks Ways to Avoid Related Ranking Issues
While Google's Matt Cutts has certainly provided a wealth of helpful tips via the company's Webmaster Central YouTube channel, he is not the only one to do so. Greg Grothaus of the Search Quality Team has posted a video (along with a presentation on the Webmaster Central Blog) covering duplicate content and multiple site issues that webmasters continue to face when trying to rank well in Google. Greg begins by clearing up a popular myth about duplicate content, and that is that Google penalizes sites for having duplicate content. This is not the case. That's not to say that duplicate content can't have a negative impact on your rankings, but Google itself is not penalizing you for it. |
Just in case you miss the embedded link, refers to this direct link: http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/09/16/google-busts-the-duplicate-content-myth
What do you think? Still believe in Unique Content Only?
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