https://www.webmaster-source.com/2008/10/12/duplicate-content/ Useful Resources For Webmasters Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.42 https://www.webmaster-source.com/2008/10/12/duplicate-content/#comment-3525 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:13:36 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=908#comment-3525 I don’t worry about the duplicate content on other sites.  I think that the penalties come from having multiple pages on the same site that are the same thing.  For folks that rip off my content, I just make sure that mine gets indexed first and is the obvious source.  I rarely republish anything verbatim, preferring to offer something unique, but an odd syndicated article here or there won’t hurt things.

]]> https://www.webmaster-source.com/2008/10/12/duplicate-content/#comment-3524 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:10:39 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=908#comment-3524 I think the only thing google does is stop people seeing the exact same article on several different sites, when they could just see it once, and have other results to look through. I believe duplicate content only effects serps, but I may be wrong.

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