Posting press releases - duplicate content? [Archive]

sarahseddon

03-05-2007, 03:56 AM

Hi, I'm not sure if this has been answered before, as I couldn't find the answer, but when I submit our press releases to PR sites and then post them on our website, will it appear as duplicate content? Will we be penalized?

thanks

stymiee

03-05-2007, 09:38 AM

No. The worst thing that can happen is the page with the press release won't be indexed or will be supplemental.

sarahseddon

03-05-2007, 11:07 AM

... I shouldn't bother trying to get the page which contains our PR listed? I've recently been trying to submit different pages from our website, but perhaps the case of this page, I shouldn't bother.

Thanks for your help.

webmaker

03-06-2007, 04:41 AM

Making a Pr Release is not unlike having a RSS feed of your content on many other sites. If you are able to include a link in your PR Releases you would have quality link backs.

innominds

03-06-2007, 02:39 PM

I dont think it could be a problem. When we check the Press Releases and the site...we don't find anything duplicate.

blitzen

03-07-2007, 09:43 AM

Quick question about this post to help me understand duplicate content.

How do SE's define "duplicate content"?

Is it the exact same content, word for word, sentence for sentence in each and every statement on the page?

Or, is duplicate content, say something like 60%, 75%, or 90% of the words are the same?
Or maybe 60%, 75%, or 90% of the sentences the same?

Thanks for the insight.

incrediblehelp

03-07-2007, 10:56 AM

Quick question about this post to help me understand duplicate content.

How do SE's define "duplicate content"?

Is it the exact same content, word for word, sentence for sentence in each and every statement on the page?

Or, is duplicate content, say something like 60%, 75%, or 90% of the words are the same?
Or maybe 60%, 75%, or 90% of the sentences the same?

Thanks for the insight.

Hard to say really. I have seen Google SI pages for just having description tags that were built as boiler plate.

webmaker

03-08-2007, 04:37 PM

You do not hear of it to much anymore. But, it still is out there. People would make many "doorway" pages either with alot of keywords or duplicated content that would have links to thier homepage. These pages were what we were trying to not index. A engine can not determine if content is being copied or not when it is published on another site. Unless it is sucked in via Iframe. My engine can see Iframes then checks to see if the page is from the current domain. Then it either follows that information or skips the content. After the content is indexed. When someone searches and exact matches or found. Most of the time the last updated page will come out on top. That is something to think about.