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Originally Posted by nashville
I thought duplicate content only had to do with content on one domain name not on other domain names?
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Its actually looked at on your site
on other sites
for what reason its done
And from there Google and others to decide what to do.
If you look at this very site many of the pages could be considered duplicate content. A portion where we type changes, but for the most part all pages are duplicates of each other, and its ok as such within the search engines. (Or should be ;->)
There are 100s of newspaper sites online which carry the same news articles as does Google Yahoo & Msn. There is a filter applied and date of first inception is used...No penalty since this is how news has been distributed for centuries.
Most E-commerce sites could be considered duplicate content sites, but again this makes sense to the search engines.
Article sites do present a dupe content issue, which leaves the search engines to detect date of first inception and filter the clones to search hades....
Duplicating content on your own site and changing just a few words here and there is frowned upon by the search engines. Could result in filter or penalty depending on severity and purpose.