Is the need for UNIQUE CONTENT a myth? Lately i'm really wondering because i'm ranking. .

tony-raymondo · Nov 16, 2009

Is the need for UNIQUE CONTENT a myth?

Lately i'm really wondering because i'm ranking on page 1 with no backlinks with all blatently ripped content. In fact its not even illegal or blackhat. I asked them if i could copy and they said fine.

All i did was change the title tag and h1 tag, and i'm on page 1 of Google.

I've heard other people say its only necessary to change the first paragraph.

So question is, if you have relatively small articles - with like 500 - 900 words, I wonder if striving for "uniqueness" is actually an over-rated goal?

Perhaps a lot less important than backlinks and anchor text? ? ? ?

Thanks!

oldenstylehats · Nov 16, 2009

tony-raymondo said:
Is the need for UNIQUE CONTENT a myth?

Lately i'm really wondering because i'm ranking on page 1 with no backlinks with all blatently ripped content. In fact its not even illegal or blackhat. I asked them if i could copy and they said fine.

All i did was change the title tag and h1 tag, and i'm on page 1 of Google.

I've heard other people say its only necessary to change the first paragraph.

So question is, if you have relatively small articles - with like 500 - 900 words, I wonder if striving for "uniqueness" is actually an over-rated goal?

Perhaps a lot less important than backlinks and anchor text? ? ? ?

Thanks!

In my personal experience, creating unique content will always be best practice, but I think that claims of a huge duplicate content penalty is totally blown out of proportion. I'm also pretty certain that context plays a big role.

Check out this article on Google's own blog: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/demystifying-duplicate-content-penalty.html

markyr17 · Nov 16, 2009

tony-raymondo said:
Is the need for UNIQUE CONTENT a myth?

Lately i'm really wondering because i'm ranking on page 1 with no backlinks with all blatently ripped content. In fact its not even illegal or blackhat. I asked them if i could copy and they said fine.

All i did was change the title tag and h1 tag, and i'm on page 1 of Google.

I've heard other people say its only necessary to change the first paragraph.

So question is, if you have relatively small articles - with like 500 - 900 words, I wonder if striving for "uniqueness" is actually an over-rated goal?

Perhaps a lot less important than backlinks and anchor text? ? ? ?

Thanks!

http://searchengineland.com/the-duplicate-content-penalty-myth-10741

You should have a look at that site. What I was looking for is a video from somebody over at Google saying that there is no penalty for duplicate content. I can't find the video right now though... Ha

Edit: here is the video from google.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hSoXutuj0g&feature=player_embedded#t=873

tony-raymondo · Nov 16, 2009

ah hah

thanks guys i'm getting it.

hmm

so if you have an original body of text on a website that is ranking for "dog tricks"

and I steal the same text, and i try to rank for "fun with your dog" then i wouldnt necessarily get penalized because of duplicate content. seems that it is only important if the source content website is targetting the same keywords.

hmm

this could be useful info

jronicus · Nov 16, 2009

Thanks for that video, it has a lot of helpful info. And best of all, it's straight from the horse's mouth!
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HowToearn · Jun 21, 2015

jronicus said:
Thanks for that video, it has a lot of helpful info. And best of all, it's straight from the horse's mouth!
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Looks like i have to learn more about the content creation

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