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Old 01-09-2009, 01:37 PM
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Default Re: Google is destroying website rankings

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Originally Posted by danlefree View Post
Did you miss the statement from Google: There's no such thing as a "duplicate content penalty." - or do you simply disbelieve that it is true?
I missed that post... This part is awesome...

"(Note that while scraping content from others is discouraged, having others scrape you is a different story; check out this post if you're worried about being scraped.)"

I thought a duplicate content penalty meant that multiple pages on your own site or within your group of domains causes a division of page rank. Exact or near exact copies of pages without enough page rank from multiple domain sources simply get filtered from the results...

Duplicate Content Penalty On...

http://www.google.ca/search?q=quantu...lling&filter=1

Duplicate Content Penalty Off...

http://www.google.ca/search?q=quantu...lling&filter=0


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Some people say that Google is not penalising websites, but if the action by Google causes a website to slip in rankings, then it is, in effect, a penalty, even if Google argues that it is not.
There is a difference between what some feel are on site structural issues with a website which may result in an on-site penalty and competition. In your case competition shouldn't be confused with duplicate content... but that's jmo...
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