Comments on: ITN & The Problem With Duplicate Content

By: Darius Money

Darius Money — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:58:53 +0000

Great post by the way… From my experience the whole duplicate content penalty is a myth… Reason: I have a niche blog that is built off of duplicate content.. It ranks number 7 for the keyword “digital cameras under $100″. Its all about giving your site authority, and building quality back links.. So if you have a authority site that has duplicate content you won’t be penalized… If you throw some duplicate content on a spammy made for ad sense blog, than im pretty sure google will penalize you… not because of the duplicate content, but because your site is garbage…

By: admin

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:32:25 +0000

Thanks for the comment Andy. Not sure I follow though – I don’t really advocate scraping other people’s content.

I also don’t think your method would work there – surely the site owner would see you’ve taken their content? (If they follow your link, they’ll still wind up at the same content after the 301). Also the vast majority of blog comments are generally nofollow – so Google won’t treat the copied content that’s nofollow linked to as the original. I would guess, anyway, because otherwise scrapers that use trackbacks would be causing a ton of damage to the SERPs.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:00:55 +0000

Very interesting post. Here’s an idea:

Modify an autoblog script so that when it copies articles from blogs, it also comments on the page that it stole from. Have the URL in the comment go to a different page on your site that you 301 to the page with the content. That way, google ranks you, not them. More simple:

*BlogA publishes article at BlogA.tld/article.
*Script (for your autoblog) scrapes article from BlogA and posts it to BlogB.tld/article
*Script comments on BlogA.tld/article with a link to BlogB.tld/article301
*BlogB.tld/article301 is a 301 redir to BlogB.tld/article. This gives you the link juice in google’s eyes, plus the owner of BlogA is unlikely to notice that you copied their article

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:08:58 +0000

Nice post. Found it very interesting, I often find myself falling into the mindset of penalties rather than filters. When you change the way you think about such things it tends to open a lot of possibilities or feelings of freedom… Matrix moment: There is no spoon!