Google Search Quality Team's Greg Grothaus on DUPLICATE CONTENT penalites (VIDEO)
 

There IS a duplicate penalty but it doesn't work the quite the way it is generally assumed to work.

Duplicate content works to harm your site's SERPS through:

Dilution of link popularity
Canonical url issues
Branding disruption
Inefficient crawling which means deeper content may not get indexed

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Mythbusting bump :)

in my opinion relying on anything said by those guys is akin to asking a leprechaun where he hides his gold.

ehh.

as i've always said... there is no such thing as a duplicate content penalty in the sense that people think there is.

I hadn't heard of that canonical tag before - thanks gene

i'm right there with you bick dick g 5 playa...

i dont trust anything those guys say..

i do agree that having unique quality content will never steer you wrong... :2 cents:

Don't hit the post button twice :2 cents:

Don't hit the post button twice. :2 cents:

Who here hires writers for unique content?

Raise your hand

i do now that i can't keep up writing it myself.

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