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Old 07-07-2008, 08:58 PM   · #1
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Copied content bad for SEO?

I've heard time and again that copied contents are bad for SEO, but how bad is it? Will it hurt one's pagerank, SERPs, etc.?

I hope someone can enlighten me. I'd like to know more about this.


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Old 07-07-2008, 09:06 PM   · #2
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i know it will affect pr better read this one to avoid it.
http://www.highrankings.com/seo-plagiarism
that's the latest article that i know of.
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Originally Posted by weblord
i know it will affect pr better read this one to avoid it.
http://www.highrankings.com/seo-plagiarism
that's the latest article that i know of.


thanks for the share william.
it certainly help me have a better knowledge about plagarism.
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Old 07-08-2008, 03:00 AM   · #4
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Google can't stand "copied" content. If you put that kind of content on a new site, it won't ever get crawled (SERP's are going to be equal to zero).
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Old 07-08-2008, 04:20 AM   · #6
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basically, duplicate content is a no-no because no search engine wants to list dozens of pages that all say the exact same thing as it brings no value to the searcher. chances are they will pick a few of them out and the rest don't show up in the main index at all.
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Old 07-09-2008, 02:30 AM   · #7
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That is why submitting one and the same article to dozen of article directories and press release sites is a waste of time...
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Old 07-09-2008, 06:11 AM   · #8
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thanks for enlightening me everybody.
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gogle has duplicate content penalty so your site will be penalized for dup content. its always wise to spend some time writing unique content. but you can also get prewritten articles and use article spinner to re-write them. make sure you proofread if you use that method
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I agree with most posts here, in that it's certainly not the best idea, BUT .. I've seen sites with 100% duplicate content get decent traffic. On another site I owned I did a little experiment, I wrote 5 articles and put them on a sub domain, and then copied, verbatim, 5 others, and put them on a different sub domain. 9/10 Articles had been index within a week (in Google); the only one that wasn't was one of the hand written ones.

So:
Copied: 5/5
Handwritten: 4/5

Is it that bad for you? No. Is it the best idea? Also a no.

Keep in mind, that these were on one domain, and the length that the pages were indexed wasn't tested, so there was definitely room for error and inaccuracies.

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Old 07-18-2008, 02:58 PM   · #11
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From what I know, there have been some sites that have had their pagerank really hurt because of sites directly mirroring their site with the addition of the words "Site Moved" to the page.

Not sure where the article is, though, and they might have fixed it by now.
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Old 07-18-2008, 10:42 PM   · #12
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What exactly are you thinking about copying? Getting articles from a site like http://ezinearticles.com/ should not hurt you. It is freely available content for the masses, and their writers have given the publisher the right to use it (credit must be given) I might have missed your point though. Are you talking about going to xyz.com and copying their site content and putting it onto yours, or taking articles from websites like the one I listed and using those one your site?
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Old 07-19-2008, 02:39 AM   · #13
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it might be legal by giving credit where it's due etc, but to answer the op, copied content is inherently bad for seo. you might actually find better luck with copied content if you're copying from a lesser known source that has less iterations in the indices.
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Old 07-22-2008, 02:32 PM   · #14
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the general consensus it that is does hurt. But I think that the duplicate filters from google are overrated. I have seen with my own eyes a site that was copied entirely, 100% design and verything and the copied site had pr3 while the original, being one year older had pr5 . I talked with the owner and he told me he had decent traffic. So, it is better to ahve unique content but don't be afraid from time to time to put something that someone else has...just my 2 cents.
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Old 07-31-2008, 03:27 PM   · #15
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Great article by John Cow

Very informative and relevant info on his entire blog!
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I would like to know how this effects feed based websites; ie: auto content, mini sites (based from feeds), auto generated content sites, etc.

I know that duplicate content is a big no for the Google engine(s) but, how are these people getting ad revenue from auto gen niche sites?
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I really do not know on how Google looks @ duplicate content.

Some sites with same content owned by different owners (in some cases) are ranked next to eachother for a keyword, and that too in top 10.

I am also experimenting the samething, not at all for adsnse revewnue or any PPC programs but to see on different search engines, how the ranking and listing goes.

I have made ahuge database. i really mean massive, of about 170 MB of 23000 articles. They used to be in HTML / PHP formats, but converted , categorized and imported them.

AllArticlesFree.com is where you can find the content. I will start playing with the display of the content. Converting to Database will help me change the presentation ofthe content to a large extent.
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Copied content will just mean the pages do not get an value, unique content is a key to getting those individual pages ranking and working for you.
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I've seen sites use completely copied content from places like gamefaqs.com/etc. and rank higher than sites in the same niche with 100% unique content. It isn't fair, but it happens rather often I'm afraid.
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So all of those services that submit your article to 100's of sites is a waste of money?
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Copied content is not only bad for SEO , it is bad for everything so try to avoid it
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I've heard time and again that copied contents are bad for SEO, but how bad is it? Will it hurt one's pagerank, SERPs, etc.?

I hope someone can enlighten me. I'd like to know more about this.

Sometimes your site is even thrown out of the index. And when it is not in index itself, the Pagerank or SERP's doesn't exists anymore for that site.
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Probably it could effect the PR but when it comes to serp I think Google gives more weight to backlinks. So even those sites with duplicate content which has lot of related backlinks rank better than sites with unique content but which dont have backlinks.
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on my personal view, i think copied content can affect your sites ranking but not that much. in google, they already removed their supplementary (a result that shows the list of websites with the same content as yours). but unique and fresh content is still a plus for google.
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