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Posted By: JohnWeb 295 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
Category: Google SEO
8 Comments
8 Comments
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No matter how many times you say it, you'll never get through to the "alt tag" (sic) and "dofollow" (sic) brigade.
There is so much garbage and misconception out there about Dupe Content. I hope people read this and finally GET OVER IT!!!! Thanks for the link.
The same can be said about the Google Sandbox, and for most penalties in general. It is just how Google works.
Site scraping is now an accepted way of life on the Internet. There are at least two successful scrapes of Wikipedia, that resemble Category pages on a WordPress blog. Scrape a site in an acceptable manner while adding user feedback and you can run a successful duplicate content website in Google.
Google doesn't like duplicate content. Whether you call it a penalty, filter, or just part of their algorithms; that is just how search engines work. And, splitting hairs over whether it technically is what Google calls a penalty is just arguing over sematics.
Screwing websites over with a smile is just how PC Google public relations statements work.
This article did help make things a bit clearer, but I think JohnHGohde's comment here is the most valuable info we can take away. Thanks John
I too am going to agree with JohnHGohde as well. The information contained in the Google article is consistant with the warnings and type of duplicate content issues we discuss with our clients. Hopefully others SE's are explaining it simularly.
I believe the article is very clear that the penalty is that if it is not unique content why would Google serve it up or attribute "credit" to a non-originating source. How would a full page of the same content results benifit Google users?
seogoogletips, I disagree. The proper definitions (as I mentioned recently in my search engine land article) are very important.
There's enough confusion in SEO as is.
Agree with Jill. It's good to get things from the horse's mouth.
@seogoogletips
@hunteeer
Thanks for your support.