Will this hurt?

[chizzle]

I'm wondering if this would affect rating and/or count as duplicate content:
if website/page is for example "5 great graphic design programs" and you post those 5 programs there with description to them copied to the letter from the official websites

 

[soulcollector]

If its already indexed by Google then yes.

 

[ranksonic]

Sure, it will count as a duplicate content.

 

[lion1978]

It will count as duplicate content, and so what?
there is no duplicate content penalty in big G, big G tries to figure out witch result is the most relevant for the searcher and displays that.
Most webshops has the same product description that they got from the manufatur and they all rank, if you want to rank at the top you just gotta make google see your content as more relevant

 

[pxoxrxn]

If a user is going to find it useful then sure do it. But you should probably add a rel="canonical", I think?

 

[prabhunexevo]

yes google thought will be duplicate content of your website low traffic..so rearrange or jumble the words

 

[Adam Xtubeage]

It is for sure duplicate as this content has already been indexed by google in a different website which has higher rank then your website. If your wish to bypass this, then create/add something different inside the content which is new and unique then google will take your post as new/unique to index..

Hope this helps..

Regards,

 

[HoneyHelper]

Yes; that will hurt !

 

[lucasbraydon]

You may feel a slight stinging sensation in your anal cavity but try to concentrate on something else.

 

[fredfred547]

It will count as duplicate content, and so what?
there is no duplicate content penalty in big G, big G tries to figure out witch result is the most relevant for the searcher and displays that.
Most webshops has the same product description that they got from the manufatur and they all rank, if you want to rank at the top you just gotta make google see your content as more relevant

LOL this is just wrong. There 100% IS a duplicate content penalty and people get hit with it all the time. Not sure where you got your information but this is totally and completely wrong.

 

[hydrix95]

why do people think that google hasn't thought of this and isn't hunting for your lazy blackhat hides

 

[BigBangTheory]

Yes but just go to your happy place and try to think of unicorns and rainbows.

 

[Zwielicht]

LOL this is just wrong. There 100% IS a duplicate content penalty and people get hit with it all the time. Not sure where you got your information but this is totally and completely wrong.

That entire duplicate content issue confuses many members on this forum.

• Some members say that there is no duplicate content penalty at all.
• Some members think the duplicate content penalty is the same as the pure spam penalty.
• Some members think even having 1 duplicate sentence on your site is grounds for a penalty.

While the Duplicate Content section in the Search Console help page doesn't ever refer to a duplicate content penalty directly, it does allude to some action in the form of a pure spam penalty from a manual review ("However, if our review indicated that you engaged in deceptive practices and your site has been removed from our search results, review your site carefully") being taken against websites with malicious duplicate content.

Anyway, please refer to the posts below.

As stated in the Google Webmaster Guidelines, they would only penalise your website if you had malicious duplicate content (e.g., many pages filled with scraped content).

Duplicate content on a site is not grounds for action on that site unless it appears that the intent of the duplicate content is to be deceptive and manipulate search engine results. If your site suffers from duplicate content issues, and you don't follow the advice listed above, we do a good job of choosing a version of the content to show in our search results.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2721312
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66359?hl=en
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/demystifying-duplicate-content-penalty.html

This is not entirely correct.

Press release sites recently got devalued to the point that most are considered a spam source. Links from them will not help rank.

Any quality site can have duplicate content and rank without difficulty. The "duplicate content" penalty everyone fears does not exist. If it did, there would be only one copy of everything on the Internet. The real threat of duplicate content is when the same content appears on the same site in more than one place, like /tags/author/categories in WordPress.

When people get hit with a "duplicate content penalty" for having a lot of duplicate content, it is really a low quality site penalty. If all your site has on it is duplicate content, it is a low quality site.

A high quality site with some duplicate content on it will have no problem.

If you still do not believe me, search for this:

SteelBalls, you disappoint. Thought you knew better.

You can get in trouble with the law for using copyrighted content.

You can copy anything on the internet, and it will not incur a duplicate content penalty. That is not what duplicate content is.

You might get a poor quality penalty, but not a duplicate content penalty.
It will not get you banned, and it is not a waste of time. In fact if use it and give credit to the original site, it actually helps.

There are smarter things to do, (as steel says), but it is far from a no-no.

And it is not duplicate content. If it were, and Google banned such things, there would only be one copy of anything in the Internet.

News sites would be out of business.

 

[KHer0]

If a user is going to find it useful then sure do it. But you should probably add a rel="canonical", I think?

Don't ever add this tag unless it's for another page that belongs to you

It works like 301 redirect but on pages scale. It will move all the juice from your page to the other one. I don't think you want t sacrifice your ranking for another website, do you ?

 

[chizzle]

I want to clarify that in my example the page doesn?t just copy another website. It copies 5 different descriptions, from 5 different websites, on 5 different programs.
My question might be harder than it seems. Because if you think about it, every word would be ?duplicate content? if google crawl bots, for example, didn?t have some kind of same word count measurement/placement. But I have no idea how they work. I?m more interested if they are smart enough to find 5 different blocks of text on my website, and decide that it is copied, and drain my page deep in search engine results because of that. and what if it is not 5 blocks, if it?s 10, at which point the drowning begins

 

[misteryou.]

That entire duplicate content issue confuses many members on this forum.

• Some members say that there is no duplicate content penalty at all.
• Some members think the duplicate content penalty is the same as the pure spam penalty.
• Some members think even having 1 duplicate sentence on your site is grounds for a penalty.

While the Duplicate Content section in the Search Console help page doesn't ever refer to a duplicate content penalty directly, it does allude to some action in the form of a pure spam penalty from a manual review ("However, if our review indicated that you engaged in deceptive practices and your site has been removed from our search results, review your site carefully") being taken against websites with malicious duplicate content.

Anyway, please refer to the posts below.

thanks for clarification man, i was wondering what people are smokIng here xD

 

[Darknight21]

That entire duplicate content issue confuses many members on this forum.

• Some members say that there is no duplicate content penalty at all.
• Some members think the duplicate content penalty is the same as the pure spam penalty.
• Some members think even having 1 duplicate sentence on your site is grounds for a penalty.

While the Duplicate Content section in the Search Console help page doesn't ever refer to a duplicate content penalty directly, it does allude to some action in the form of a pure spam penalty from a manual review ("However, if our review indicated that you engaged in deceptive practices and your site has been removed from our search results, review your site carefully") being taken against websites with malicious duplicate content.

Anyway, please refer to the posts below.

some real great info there, Thanks buddy

 

[sweetiepee]

some real great info there, Thanks buddy

Really good to know thanks!

 

[7th Sense]

Yeah that will hurt your site sure...

 

[pxoxrxn]

Don't ever add this tag unless it's for another page that belongs to you

It works like 301 redirect but on pages scale. It will move all the juice from your page to the other one. I don't think you want t sacrifice your ranking for another website, do you ?

Yeah, OP was talking about duplicate content on his own site. So would you use the rel=canonical if you get a snippet of blog content for the /blog page and add the tag to the 'read more' link?