Thread: Is duplicate content helpful for SE optimization?

Is duplicate content helpful for SE optimization?

Promoting a site with duplicate content is not worthy. So we should try to promote our site with original and unique content but where you will get original content? You can create it of your own. If you can not do it of your own then lots of programmer, writer and designer are searching jobs in freelancing sites. You can hire one guy from there for your own content making.
Google and other major search engine admin team link unique content for a sites best optimization so always try for original content and left plagiarism or copy paste.

Do you have more idea about this?

Like you said it's always best to create unique content and promote quality, unique content. Sometimes this isn't possible but if you want to outrank the original creator of the source, chances are you will be left disappointed.

Duplicate contents is very harmful for a website's reputation and not effective for SEO purposes. I prefer to stay away from it.

as you have said it won't be effective as unique content...google might remove your indexed pages if this is copied and pasted content...

Google’s duplicate content filter is notorious. There have been many articles written about it, many forum posts and discussions regarding it, and speculation that runs rampant. What there has seemed be a lack of, however, is discussion as to whether or not other search engines apply duplicate content filters for their search results, like Google does so famously.

Perhaps it’s because Google has it all wrong, at least in the eyes of those getting penalized for duplicate content. It is, in fact, the ones being penalized that created the original content, but are no where to be found in the SERPs. It feels to those webmasters as if they invented a new product, and because of that product’s popularity duplicates popped up everywhere. Flattering at first, but in the end, it is one of their competitors who duplicated the idea, who patents it as their own. To add insult to injury the original creator of the product gets fined for claiming it was their own. It makes them want to scream “Liar, liar, pants on fire…” Ok, I’m being a bit facetious, but it certainly feels unfair. Is it cheating? Yes, in a way, it is. But this is how the game is played, at least for this moment in time with Google.

No duplicate content is totally harmful for that. Always best to create a healthy.fresh and unique content.

No, duplicate content will not help your site's ranking, it will harm because quality websites contain only quality and unique information and Google knows this very well.

If you found this information on another site, please include the original source. Duplicate Content Penalties: Problems with Google’s Filter

Originally Posted by VirtualAssist

Google’s duplicate content filter is notorious. There have been many articles written about it, many forum posts and discussions regarding it, and speculation that runs rampant. What there has seemed be a lack of, however, is discussion as to whether or not other search engines apply duplicate content filters for their search results, like Google does so famously.

Perhaps it’s because Google has it all wrong, at least in the eyes of those getting penalized for duplicate content. It is, in fact, the ones being penalized that created the original content, but are no where to be found in the SERPs. It feels to those webmasters as if they invented a new product, and because of that product’s popularity duplicates popped up everywhere. Flattering at first, but in the end, it is one of their competitors who duplicated the idea, who patents it as their own. To add insult to injury the original creator of the product gets fined for claiming it was their own. It makes them want to scream “Liar, liar, pants on fire…” Ok, I’m being a bit facetious, but it certainly feels unfair. Is it cheating? Yes, in a way, it is. But this is how the game is played, at least for this moment in time with Google.

Unique content is good for seo purpose

To add more, you could create LSI content. You could pour lost of related terms or keywords to your content as this will help on relevancy of your content to your site theme.

The Duplicate content is a word used in the field of search engine optimization to explain content that appears on extra than one web page, even on dissimilar web sites. When various pages have fundamentally the similar content.

Lots of my pages have duplicate content, pulled from open-source resources online.

Such as Wikipedia, being since this content is open-source it is ok to use, modify and change as long as you link back to the original source.

My sites have been showing up excellently in SERP's using this duplicate content, some pages even out rank the original Wikipedia article.

Which essentially is the same exact duplicate content, so this both shows and tells me that I am executing my SEO correctly and am acheiving good rankings using duplicate content.

So in my case, duplicate content is not bad!

Thanks,

BiologyWebmaster

Hi,

There is a difference between using a tid bit and linking back to the source.

Do NOT try to make a website that is copy and paste of whole articles for you will get nailed for duplicate content guaranteed.

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Sami

duplicate content is not good for SEO, your website will not come in top ranking, only quality content can help you.

Hi,
if you looking to penalize by Google for duplicate content you can do it. try to use unique and fresh content.

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its interesting that i found this thread, i've just read a message of a guy which tells that on his site there r much duplicate information but its good indexed and he has profit, so the conclusion is that unique content should be but duplicate is not alway bad!
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according to me the duplicate content will reduce your site page rank because search engine remove duplicate content. so you don,t use any duplicate content.

No, it's not helpful. Search engines are smart enough to figure out duplicate content.

Duplicate content does not help AT ALL!! In fact, Google penalizes a lot if you have it. Always run your content through Copyscape to make sure you don't have any duplicate content and your content isn't being copied by someone else either.

Originally Posted by inspiroHost

Duplicate content does not help AT ALL!! In fact, Google penalizes a lot if you have it. Always run your content through Copyscape to make sure you don't have any duplicate content and your content isn't being copied by someone else either.

nope they won't..I hope this will enlighten you
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Lots of comment against duplicate content proves us to promote our site with only new original content......

there's actually some debate about this, my thought is that Google doesn't like it ....

In my opinion, duplicated content is not really helping when you are doing SEO. That's my opinion.

My understanding of duplicate content is that a webmaster should not have duplicate content on their own website.

Such as having multiple pages with essentially the same content, duplicate content should not be on your site, if you have 2 of the same pages for example.

But with the way knowledge and information is shared online, just by statistics alone, almost every website will have some duplicated content, which may be found on another site.

Lot's of people share the same information, which is duplicate content!

Examples:

Copyright Notices
Disclaimers
Privacy Policies
How-To's
Guidelines
Instructions
Tutorials
References
Sources

etc...

If search engines did not allow duplicate content, then thousands of sites would have already been banned for having it on their sites already.

Any Open-Source Information would be diminished and suppressed if that were the case. The purpose of the internet is to exchange, share, and ensure the open-access of knowledge and information, at least that is what is was meant to be, until people started using the internet as a means of selling and making money.

Scientists were the first people to use the internet, to share and distibute their research findings online, for the entire world and other researchers to see, use, compare, reproduce, publish and store for free. This was meant to promote education and access to technology and open-information for everyone.

I Hope This Enlightens A Few;
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BiologyWebmaster

Hi

@Bio your answer is correct I can explain why. If you got nailed for duplicate content all news sites that pull an AP story and placed it on their website would have been banned a longtime ago. Also articles site would be banned. Joke site would be banned, quotes sites banned, weather sites banned.

But at the same time do not copy and paste content from other sites. A site that has NO ZERO original content will not rate well. That fact has been proven.

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Sami

Originally Posted by andr114

Duplicate contents is very harmful for a website's reputation and not effective for SEO purposes. I prefer to stay away from it.

duplicate content is of course harmful in all aspects of a site and google doesnt like the concept of duplicate content..

To avoid getting penalty from search engine left promoting your site using duplicate content..........

I don't think so, duplicate content is always under scam.

Duplicate content is not at all advisable to SEO. These comes under black hat techniques.

Never. Google will ban such before 1 month.

Having your very own unique content is where you can benefit more. Besides, having duplicates content might be harmful for your site.

Never, According to me duplicate content can never be good as per SEO. This is get down your website. If you upload duplicate content into your website, your website's ranking will fall down very soon.

Search engine will ban the site for duplicate content or keyword serps will go down

I have some blogs with RSS feeds from google. None of the pages get indexed by google, yahoo or bing.

Duplicate content isnt a good idea.

Actually i might add, i did have an argument on another forum with some webmasters who were saying the text lorem ipsum - you know that text people put in place of real text, when testing a website - they were saying having this text on your page boosts your results.

The idea was google gives better credence to words it finds around everywhere, say the word iphone im sure would be one of these words.

I dont exactly agree with it, and i think hiding a big blob of jibberish text on your page is not the best idea its sneaky and eventually will be caught out.

But it is food for thought

Duplicate content does not help SE AT ALL!! In fact, same as g mail the links which are harmful are duplicated or irrelevant will be in spam folder,the same way the websites which are duplicated will be in its spam folder,..duplicate content will not help seo at all..

Originally Posted by mahesh10

Duplicate content does not help SE AT ALL!! In fact, same as g mail the links which are harmful are duplicated or irrelevant will be in spam folder,the same way the websites which are duplicated will be in its spam folder,..duplicate content will not help seo at all..

The real question is would it hurt your SE ranking?

duplicate content is not helpful for seo.....................

One area where this is particularly true is when the content at more than one web address, or URL, appears to be substantially similar at each of the locations it is seen by the search engines.

Some duplicate content may cause pages to be filtered at the time of serving of results by search engines, and there is no guarantee as to which version of a page will show in results and which versions won’t. Duplicate content may also lead to some sites and some pages not being indexed by search engines at all, or may result in a search engine crawling program stopping the indexing all of the pages of a site because it finds too many copies of the same pages under different URLs.

There are a few different reasons why search engines dislike duplicate content. One is that they don’t want to show the same pages in their search results. Another is that they don’t want to spend the resources in indexing pages that are substantially similar.

Sometimes this isn't potential but if you want to outrank the original creator of the source, chances are you will be left discomfited.