Re: Aaaahhhhh! Can anyone tell me why we still have a 0 PageRank rating?
It is not so much you get a penalty, in that Google blacklists your site. It simply ignores the content you have duplicated. You simply don't get any sort of benefit. This means you can recover - just change the content. Now if you had spammy content, DCMA complaints, etc. even an overabundance of duplicate content (mirroring an entire web site for example, or pages full of duplicate text) you might get a penalty - your site might get weighted in such a way it wouldn't rank in the top 1,000, it might get banned, etc. These things require much more to recover from, possibly up to submitting a reinclusion request after fixing the problem.
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