Forums

[Oscar Carter Company: Ambit Energy Corporation Contribution Level: 2]

Can you tell me from a search engine optimization perspective does it hurt or enhance posting the same blog on more than one site? I have a post I want to spread more widely than usual and the question came to mind. Your feed back will be appreciated.

Oscar Carter
(212) 316-2271
http://www.bestwealthstrategyever.com

[Ilka Flood Company: SendOutCards Contribution Level: 4]

Hi Oscar,

From what I hear the duplicate content penalty is a myth. Google will not penalize your for duplicate content. However, what I do is spin my article before submitting it to other sites. That way I get unique versions of the same article or blog post.

By the way, if you put "duplicate content" (without quotation) in the search box for the forums above, you will find more on that subject right here at BetterNetworker.

Hope this helps.

[Oscar Carter Company: Ambit Energy Corporation Contribution Level: 2]

Awesome, thanks for the feed back.

Oscar

[Ben Sanderson Contribution Level: 1]

I've heard different takes on this issue. Some think it does work, some think it doesn't. I would say I think it probably works on Yahoo and Bing, maybe not on google. With that said, I can tell you that I have the same content indexed and showing up as links in my google webmaster tools. I can't tell you if that means for sure they are all passing link juice. Ultimately, I think any answer to this one is speculation. A test may be to create two wordpress sites with the exact same content linking to two different orphan pages and see if they get indexed. Sorry that I didn't really help, but I'm not sure that anyone can say with authority that they know the answer.

[Kerry Thomas Contribution Level: 2]

Articles and blogs are syndicated all the time and are essentially duplicate material that is spread across multiple domains. The key thing you will need to watch for is to not post duplicate material on multiple sites that you own.

According to Google engineer Matt Cutts, if you have content that is essentially going to end up syndicated on other sites, then the person doing the syndicating needs to provide a link back to the source of the the original content. They really can't do anything that can hurt you...but if they are the ones duplicating the content then it's not going to help them.

There is no such thing as a duplicate content penalty...there is a situation where Google will choose the version of the duplicate content they believe is best, which may not be the page you want indexed. People tend to perceive this as penalty when they have ranking/indexing issues. This happens within your own site. Therefore you should make all pages totally unique and make sure that your urls are also consistent.

For example Google will see http://www.yourpage.com/ and http://www.yourpage.com/index.html as two totally separate pages even though they both resolve to the same page. Here's a good link to help you understand this:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html


If you have the version that doesn't get indexed linked to the rest of your site then you are not getting the benefit of the pagerank from the indexed page.

As for how to handle your situation, the best way to do that would be to write some unique content on each of the sites that you want your blog to appear on then simply place a keyword related link back to the blog content. This would be the preferred method as you will then have relevant and unique content on each of the sites and you will have a link from said content back to your blog.

Be sure to use keyword related anchor text in the links and this will help your rankings. Also the anchor text doesn't have to all be the same...change them up with keyword variations that fit the content and this will be far more effective.

A good rule of thumb to follow in this situation is to never place duplicate content if you can add unique content and then link from it back to your blog/website. This would be the best way to optimize your blog and get it exposed to readers too. Any questions, let me know. Kerry

[Derrick Jones Contribution Level: 1]

If those pages stay in the index and do not have a nofollow tag then they pass link juice. Now the exact amount of juice that is passed will depend on both the page rank as well as relevance of the page. So the trick is to get those pages to stay in the index. As long as you can do that then I wouldn't worry to much about it.

I've heard different takes on this issue. Some think it does work, some think it doesn't. I would say I think it probably works on Yahoo and Bing, maybe not on google. With that said, I can tell you that I have the same content indexed and showing up as links in my google webmaster tools. I can't tell you if that means for sure they are all passing link juice. Ultimately, I think any answer to this one is speculation. A test may be to create two wordpress sites with the exact same content linking to two different orphan pages and see if they get indexed. Sorry that I didn't really help, but I'm not sure that anyone can say with authority that they know the answer.

[Contempo Marketing Contribution Level: 4]

There seems great debate on the duplicate content penalty, we talked about it in last years Search Engine Marketing Expo in Chicago last year.

Here are some rules...Syndication is key as we all want it but syndication through RSS is more the right way of doing it. the RSS Aggregated data is then published on the other site (one you own or not) but it's simply a briefing that will link back to your site (with the full article)

Content Duplication Penalty IS VERY REAL...Anyone ever remember their replicated landing page getting slapped by GOOGLE, knocked off PPC and then the parent domain eventually SANDBOXED.....

Ahhhh but the work-around as there really is a work around
Say you have 20 domains on one host....guess what those domains share the same IP Address
So spamming your content through your own domains or multiple blogs hosted on that IP will hand you a penalty

Now if you have domains hosted with different ip address or providers
They will be treated as different sites, and the Duplicate Content Penalty will not apply...
THIS WILL WORK

Now if you have domains hosted with different ip address or providers
They will be treated as different sites, and the Duplicate Content Penalty will not apply...
THIS WILL WORK

YES! That's the key thing in this discussion...If you separate yourself out with different hosting accounts, you'll have no problem. You could even purchase your domain names from various providers for further separation

[Daniel Attard Company: Neways Worldwide Contribution Level: 3]

Spreading your presence on the internet should be similar to the mechanism of viruses...you must make a presence anywhere possible

Daniel Attard

[Contempo Marketing Contribution Level: 4]

One of my SEO secrets is to set blogs on many Wordpress MU sites, basically handeling the IP address issue, than post great content and shoot a link (anchor text BTW) to your landing page or money page. I do this successfully without fail...

Comment spamming is WRONG......Commenting on OTHER BLOGS...hoping for a backlink

Having an army of Wordpress Blogs on hundreds even thousands of Wordpress MU sites where you control content...and free to post any anchor text links....Is grey hat seo...BUT IT's YOUR OWN STUFF....this is OK

Incredible SEO method, and well IT HELPS ME MAKE MONEY FOR ME , and helps me make money for my clients PERIOD