dgridley said:
Damion, I'm not misinforming anyone... I can show you dozens of forum threads where this is a hotly contested non-issue.
I use reprint articles all the time on my sites and most of my older sites are at least PR4.
News sites repeat the same information verbatim all the time without penalty.. how do you explain that?
You can pose yourself as an expert, but the fact remains there are exceptions to every "rule" and IMO (and that of many others), the dupe content penalty is a myth.
I can show you this as well with empiric experiences! And yes this is a hotly contested issue because it's not a non-issue since it can have substantial impact on ones rankings in the search engines.
How can you even imply it's a non-issue as in non-important.
The debates grounded on real life experiences are alone by itself a sign of importance and therefor qualifing as a real issue and not a non-issue as you stated.
Yes, you may use reprint articles all the time as you say but one has to keep in mind that there are a lot of factors involved with getting penalized in whatever form that may be. Being downgraded or totally removed from the results.
MFA websites are purely scraped content sites with no substantial content that offer any use for the public. Google algorithyms easliy detects this so any traffic flow is minimal to nihil and wil therefor not generate the revenue the promotors of MFA websites promises it is going to give.
News sites repeat the same information verbatim all the time without penalty.. how do you explain that?
I already explained it but if you don't pay any attention to what i have posted i wil post it again for you.
There are times when duplicate content is considered legitimate by both search engines and visitors and that is on resource sites. A site that consists primarily as an index of articles on a specific subject-matter will not be penalized by posting articles that occur elsewhere on the net, though the weight it may be given as additional content will likely not be as high as a page of unique content.
From the previous post above:
News sites are also something similar in a way but the type of content is being analyzed and profiled and wil be considered to be penalized accordingly if certain criteria doesn't match up.
How hard is this for you to understand?
I am not posing myself as an expert as you say but i am expressing my views here about MFA websites and there value that it clearly doesn't hold.
Yes there are exceptions to the rule as i myself have clearly explained but...
MFA WEBSITES ISN'T ONE OF THEM!
When you make a website with content duped thousand of times by other people doing the same exact thing and filled with adsense ads it's not that difficult for a search engine like google to ban them from the results.
MSN wil follow soon enough!
Purely scraped content sites has no value whatsoever, they wil be removed from the results soon enough.
MFA websites are scraped content websites so my point is that you wil not achieve the success with them as advertised.
It's just another get-rich-quick scheme!
There are no exceptions for MFA sites!
Sites that have reprint articles but also hold content of their own and with decent back link building from which link reputation is going to be of more value in the future wil be penalized less or even not if the factors balance each other out.
For a MFA website there is nothing that be of any influence to balance things out.
I hope you understand my point what i am trying to explain? I am not trying to pose as an expert but i am sharing my knowledge from what i have gathered over the years on forums and such and by reading the experiences of webmasters in general regarding duplicate content.
Maybe your definition of MFA site is different from mine and this might be the point that causes our friendly discussion.
But like i said before a MFA website according to my definition is a waste of time and is doomed to fail and only has a slight possibility to gain minimal revenue. the kind of revenue that would even hardly pay for the initial investment.
Your disagreement regarding duplicate content is understandable because there are clearly various factors to considder.
But my innitial post regarding duplicate content is targeted at MFA websites (scraper sites) from which duplicate content is a consistent factor with nothing else to balance things out.
These are pure get-rich-quick schemes that might have worked for some in past times but in present times a waste of money and time.
If you still want to defend these get-rich-quick schemes then continue to do so but i am glad i joined in this thread to warn the people just starting out these MFA packages are bound to be dissapointed.
And in the case of you still keeping up there is no harm in these get-rich-quick MFA schemes then you...
ARE MISINFORMING THEM!!