How Much Duplicate Content is Allowed Within a Website?

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Hi all, I'm creating a few long blog posts but each blog post will share some of the same content on each post.

Is this ok?

How will it affect seo?
 
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I think you may run into cannibalization issues. I mean, sharing 5% of your content among all posts is ok, but more than that... I don't know, it sounds risky to me :)
 
Long blog posts work! But don't spin the content or you just won't rank. When writing try to make your goal to share as much helpful information in a different way and add as much helpful value as possible. That's a recipe for success.
 
homeriscool said:
Hi all, I'm creating a few long blog posts but each blog post will share some of the same content on each post.

Is this ok?

How will it affect seo?
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I've ranked pages with only duplicate content. Never just a copy of a single article, but paragraphs from multiple articles put together. Those pages are still ranking months and even years later.
 
tazarbm said:
I think you may run into cannibalization issues. I mean, sharing 5% of your content among all posts is ok, but more than that... I don't know, it sounds risky to me :)
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How did you come about the 5%‽

Any data on that ?
 
tazarbm said:
I think you may run into cannibalization issues. I mean, sharing 5% of your content among all posts is ok, but more than that... I don't know, it sounds risky to me :)
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I was thinking more along the lines of 40% - 50% duplicate content.

Would this be ok within the same site?
 
Thriveink said:
why not rewrite that 40-50% content ?
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Here's what I'm doing.....

The posts I am writing share a lot of the same information.

So rather than rewriting each 2500 word blog post, I could *potentially* get away with rewriting 50% of it.

Does that make sense?
 
homeriscool said:
Hi all, I'm creating a few long blog posts but each blog post will share some of the same content on each post.

Is this ok?

How will it affect seo?
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On one post, make a small summary of the text of your other post and give it an internal link. Maybe like one/two sentences with the main conclusion.

Don't write the exact same stuff in long form. One of the two posts might get de-indexed in that case.
 
HenryObi said:
How did you come about the 5%‽

Any data on that ?
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just blurted out a number that made sense to me. But I know that it could very well be 10% or more. But if you have data that confirms the right amount of allowable duplicate content feel free to prove me wrong, I don't mind :)
 
a well done master spin will not penalize you! But I understand your point of view
 
duplicate content is not really a problem, since it does not result in a penalty.
Google will take the page that seems to be the most reliable and will rank it, ignoring the others (this is a problem)
 
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