Comments on: How Much Trouble is Duplicate Content? http://www.aspectsofhomebusiness.com/blog/article-marketing/how-much-trouble-is-duplicate-content/ Tips on running your home business. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:11:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Datafeeds and Duplicate Content » Aspects of Home Business Blog http://www.aspectsofhomebusiness.com/blog/article-marketing/how-much-trouble-is-duplicate-content/#comment-648 Datafeeds and Duplicate Content » Aspects of Home Business Blog Sat, 23 Jun 2007 05:20:07 +0000 http://www.aspectsofhomebusiness.com/blog/article-marketing/how-much-trouble-is-duplicate-content/#comment-648 [...] I do a limited amount of work with datafeeds on a few of my sites. It’s not my main focus, but I’ve had some fair results from them. But I know a lot of people worry about them resulting in the much feared duplicate content penalty. After all, an unknown number of affiliates, plus possibly the merchant’s site may be using the exact same product information and descriptions. [...] [...] I do a limited amount of work with datafeeds on a few of my sites. It’s not my main focus, but I’ve had some fair results from them. But I know a lot of people worry about them resulting in the much feared duplicate content penalty. After all, an unknown number of affiliates, plus possibly the merchant’s site may be using the exact same product information and descriptions. [...]

]]> By: Jimi http://www.aspectsofhomebusiness.com/blog/article-marketing/how-much-trouble-is-duplicate-content/#comment-424 Jimi Wed, 23 May 2007 21:39:08 +0000 http://www.aspectsofhomebusiness.com/blog/article-marketing/how-much-trouble-is-duplicate-content/#comment-424 Yup...duplicate content won't necessarily hurt you with search engines, but you may lost out to a site that has more linkbacks to the same content, or has a higher page rank. I tested this theory at one point with Associated Content. I submitted an article that was an exact copy of one of my blog posts for a little extra cash. At first, AC kicked my post out of Google and got indexed instead of mine. They rank higher than I do, but this same post on my blog had hundreds of links to it so eventually it reclaimed its indexing and dumped the AC site. As long as you write most of your own stuff you are good. Just don't expect to get indexed if you copy content from other sites word for word for any of those posts. Yup…duplicate content won’t necessarily hurt you with search engines, but you may lost out to a site that has more linkbacks to the same content, or has a higher page rank. I tested this theory at one point with Associated Content. I submitted an article that was an exact copy of one of my blog posts for a little extra cash. At first, AC kicked my post out of Google and got indexed instead of mine. They rank higher than I do, but this same post on my blog had hundreds of links to it so eventually it reclaimed its indexing and dumped the AC site.

As long as you write most of your own stuff you are good. Just don’t expect to get indexed if you copy content from other sites word for word for any of those posts.

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