Google doesn't penalize for duplicate content

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'Medium and Tumblr are also great for content. Remember, Google doesn’t penalize for duplicate content. There is nothing wrong with putting content on your blog and then publishing it on Medium and Tumblr a week later.'

I have taken the above from Neil Patel's email. He was talking about content marketing trends.

Around here all I see a lot of talk about never having duplicate content, Google doesn't approve etc.

Thoughts? Feelings?
 
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303369 said:
You trust that guy?
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Let us be honest.

No matter who we quote on this forum, there will always be somebody or a group of people who say the same thing about them.

What i like about NP is he generally gives a lot of statistics as food for thought.
 
Try it and see. I don't think they would penalise for it, but if you published content on your blog and it gets indexed, then you re-publish it on tumblr, will it get indexed there as well? I am not so sure.
 
I don’t think he is talking about duplicates that we talk about on the forum.

He’s not saying copy content from one site to another word to word, he is saying you can copy content from your blog to your medium/tumblr.

I use both medium/tumblr to publish excerpts from my updates with the linkback to the site. I don’t get any penalty, get backlinks, and get some traffic from those sources as well. No penalty.

Try copying someone else’s content word to word and get it indexed and you will get a penalty.
 
There is some true in that.

Although I wouldn't re-post my own content, look at press releases for example.
If google would penalize duplicate content most news websites would be gone.

Maybe using excerpts while sharing your link is something safer as se900se said.
 
No Google doesn't penalize for duplicate content, it just won't always index it.

I have seen duplicate content never index, some that index's and then in a short time get removed from the SERP and occasionally some that sticks.

You will want to make sure that your content is indexed on your site before sharing on social and other platforms. Once its indexed, you can paste it where ever you want. While it may or may not index within Google it will be searchable within the platform you post it on as well as viewable to followers or others browsing your niche within the platform. The sharing on other platforms isn't about indexing in Google it's about marketing your content outside of Google.
 
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Don't believe him, he don't know SEO, but he is a "good" marketer, market newbies, okay no hate here. If anyone really want to see a big fault of his blog, I posted one of his biggest fault in 2016 maybe I forgot in BHW here. Again, no hate, he don't know seo, nowadays he just hire, or write some plain things, which everyone knows.

And for duplicate content, there are some circumstances:

1) Google indeed punish duplicate contents, want to test out? Buy a domain, post 1,0000 duplicate posts, and you will see what you get in some months or even weeks, pure spam message in your GSC.
2) If you just have "some" extend duplicate posts here and there, its normal, maybe u won't get a hard hammer, just your rankings maybe "not that good" as original ones
3) syndicate posts to social medias is normal, if post is not indexed but u quickly share them on social medias and got indexed there, it may pose some problems, sry I remember read sth about this topic on seroundtable and searchenginejournal but forgot the conclusion, ( either there is a "soft" duplicate not a big problem, or your social media post will rank better than your original domain post, again, I forgot it, anyone can check them, if I am right, john muller answered this)

PS: I read another interesting thing regard this topic from a good source: for example, an authority website copied your original news or post, and ranked better than u, people found that it seems the original post will get "a bit of authority" in such a case gradually.

again, not my found, judge it by yourself.
 
terrycody said:
Don't believe him, he don't know SEO, but he is a "good" marketer, market newbies, okay no hate here. If anyone really want to see a big fault of his blog, I posted one of his biggest fault in 2016 maybe I forgot in BHW here. Again, no hate, he don't know seo, nowadays he just hire, or write some plain things, which everyone knows.

And for duplicate content, there are some circumstances:

1) Google indeed punish duplicate contents, want to test out? Buy a domain, post 1,0000 duplicate posts, and you will see what you get in some months or even weeks, pure spam message in your GSC.
2) If you just have "some" extend duplicate posts here and there, its normal, maybe u won't get a hard hammer, just your rankings maybe "not that good" as original ones
3) syndicate posts to social medias is normal, if post is not indexed but u quickly share them on social medias and got indexed there, it may pose some problems, sry I remember read sth about this topic on seroundtable and searchenginejournal but forgot the conclusion, ( either there is a "soft" duplicate not a big problem, or your social media post will rank better than your original domain post, again, I forgot it, anyone can check them, if I am right, john muller answered this)

PS: I read another interesting thing regard this topic from a good source: for example, an authority website copied your original news or post, and ranked better than u, people found that it seems the original post will get "a bit of authority" from this case.

again, not my found, judge it by yourself.
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What if I post 10k duplicate posts giving credit to the source in all posts...would that still give me a pure spam message in GSC?
 
Google can't penalize you if you put a "duplicate" content every now and then. There are PR articles that people publish, re-publish with/without copyright and they are doing fine for years (that is the point of creating/selling a PR content).
However, having a website with 60-70%+ of duplicate content only, it is something that will most likely get more attention through the algorithm. Google is not just a simple algorithm anymore.
 
TheVigilante said:
What if I post 10k duplicate posts giving credit to the source in all posts...would that still give me a pure spam message in GSC?
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Really good question, its called curated content, no idea what it will happen as of 2019 though, maybe either still get a pure spam message or at least, not ranking good, or very bad indexation rate, or whatever, I won't try it now, its an outdated strategy some years back.

Black hat spam is still working for sure, just I don't know them lol.
 
davids355 said:
Try it and see. I don't think they would penalise for it, but if you published content on your blog and it gets indexed, then you re-publish it on tumblr, will it get indexed there as well? I am not so sure.
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I think posting it once on your blog, then later on platforms related to your money site to feedback visitors who may not have seen it on your blog is probably his thinking.

It makes sense I suppose. Why write a great article which you can only share in one place.

se900se said:
I don’t think he is talking about duplicates that we talk about on the forum.

He’s not saying copy content from one site to another word to word, he is saying you can copy content from your blog to your medium/tumblr.

I use both medium/tumblr to publish excerpts from my updates with the linkback to the site. I don’t get any penalty, get backlinks, and get some traffic from those sources as well. No penalty.

Try copying someone else’s content word to word and get it indexed and you will get a penalty.
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Yes, it did read that way.

But it did get me thinking, which is why I like his emails. They make me think about related subjects.

There are plenty of sites out there with duplicate content. Many e-com stores sell the same products and have the same script in the listings.

Has anyone ever actually been punished for duplicate content?

Should I ask, has anyone with an authority site ever been punished for duplicate content?
 
terrycody said:
Don't believe him, he don't know SEO, but he is a "good" marketer, market newbies, okay no hate here. If anyone really want to see a big fault of his blog, I posted one of his biggest fault in 2016 maybe I forgot in BHW here. Again, no hate, he don't know seo, nowadays he just hire, or write some plain things, which everyone knows.

And for duplicate content, there are some circumstances:

1) Google indeed punish duplicate contents, want to test out? Buy a domain, post 1,0000 duplicate posts, and you will see what you get in some months or even weeks, pure spam message in your GSC.
2) If you just have "some" extend duplicate posts here and there, its normal, maybe u won't get a hard hammer, just your rankings maybe "not that good" as original ones
3) syndicate posts to social medias is normal, if post is not indexed but u quickly share them on social medias and got indexed there, it may pose some problems, sry I remember read sth about this topic on seroundtable and searchenginejournal but forgot the conclusion, ( either there is a "soft" duplicate not a big problem, or your social media post will rank better than your original domain post, again, I forgot it, anyone can check them, if I am right, john muller answered this)

PS: I read another interesting thing regard this topic from a good source: for example, an authority website copied your original news or post, and ranked better than u, people found that it seems the original post will get "a bit of authority" in such a case gradually.

again, not my found, judge it by yourself.
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Agreed, posting a ton of duplicate content on your own blog will definitely get you smacked with a "pure spam" penalty. But posting the original content on your blog, indexing it and then sharing it will not result in any penalties. Sharing on social media and web 2.0's will not result in any negative consequences to your original site and I find it unlikely that you will get a Medium, Tumblr, Blogger account penalized. The key is indexing the original post before sharing.
 
zack101 said:
I think posting it once on your blog, then later on platforms related to your money site to feedback visitors who may not have seen it on your blog is probably his thinking.

It makes sense I suppose. Why write a great article which you can only share in one place.



Yes, it did read that way.

But it did get me thinking, which is why I like his emails. They make me think about related subjects.

There are plenty of sites out there with duplicate content. Many e-com stores sell the same products and have the same script in the listings.

Has anyone ever actually been punished for duplicate content?

Should I ask, has anyone with an authority site ever been punished for duplicate content?
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One of the sites I worked with got penalized for duplicate content (manual actions) because they allowed users to create content and many users simply copy-pasted content from other sites (hundreds of articles among hundreds of users). They had to stop this completely, clean out all duplicates and prevent it from happening by screening all the posts (they eventually closed options for users to submit uncurated content).

They were still ranked in Google during the penalty, but 90% of the pages were off the search.
 
It's a hit and miss in terms of duplicate content.

A recent example, I received a natural contextual backlink from OprahMag.com. That same article was then reposted to Yahoo and WomenHealthMag. Two, very strong domains. Well, the Yahoo duplicate was indexed right away, while the WomenHealthMag duplicate never indexed whatsoever.

I have many similar examples over the last few months, and it's been difficult to find any sort of clues as to why some duplicate content becomes indexable, and why some doesn't.

FYI - In the example above, both, Yahoo and WHM linked to the original piece.

Edit: Decided to re-check the piece. I just also noticed that the article was also copy/pasted to MSN.com, and it is successfully indexed.

Edit: I decided to check and see if Google also picked up the duplicates as backlinks, and included them in GWT, and they did. The original and all the duplicates except for the one on WHM were counted as backlinks by Google. The funny thing is, Yahoo ended up posting the articles across 10+ different subdomains on their site. (across various countries, etc uk.news.yahoo.com), and every one of those duplicates are indexed and counted by Google in GWT.
 
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Maybe not penalizing but for sure they wont give you any relevance in search for your duplicated content versus new fresh relevant content posted by others that will for sure outrank you for the terms you want to rank with your duplicated content.
 
@303369 Im a web developer and SEO expert and i can say google will flag your site if you post duplicate content, in that case you can get some articles written by someone else and just change a few words here and there that will look unique to google simple as that guys.
 
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