Duplicate content is a big headache for every site owner. Many of my friends, colleagues and webmasters ask me questions that, 
will Google really penalize our site due to duplicate content even if we are generating original words. Google is very strict on Duplicate content and it’s made a pet called Panda to penalize such sites having on-page errors and duplicate content is one of these errors. The fears of duplicate content penalty comes, when someone start copying our content and republishing it on his or other sites. Today I am going to explain some facts with Google’s terms and conditions to clarify this thing. see what according to Matts Cutts Google Panda is?
There are two reasons about why a duplicate penalty will be applied to your site. would you like to save your site from next Penguin update? Unnatural Link Building is also prohibited in Google Penguin. also read Off Page SEO Techniques after Google Penguin.
- Same content on your own site between main and sub-domains or between two URL’s on a same domain.
- Same content between two or three different domains.
Duplicate Content will not hurt your site says Matt Cutts (Head, Google’s Search Spam)
Yes off-course it’s not my words it’s Matt Cutts saying you should not take stress about duplicate content in the video below.
As you can see in above video where Matt Cutts saying a couple of time that I don’t take stress about duplicate content and you also should not.
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Before we continue on why Cutts says that let’s discuss in short that which content is duplicate according to Google. you may also like how to promote your content for social media.
Same content within your Domain
1. Same Content on Single Domain
If you have a site with multiple sub-domains and they are using same content then it will come under duplicate content. I saw many companies create sub-domains according to country and post same things on all domains. Most of the time Google think that you did it unintentionally and it may possible that Google will not penalize your site. But it’s not good and Google categorize it as duplicate content. One should not do this practice. learn what is Google Panda Algorithm Update and how to On Page SEO of Your Blog.
2. Same Content within multiple URLs in same Domain
This problem comes when we create two different pages with same content. Mainly bloggers face this problem but there’s a solution we can add canonical tag on such kind of pages and posts. you will also like how to create fresh content ideas for your blog.
Same Content on Multiple Domains
If you are a webmaster or blogger and copying content from other websites to increase yours then I suggest you to stop doing this, may be Google will not penalize you but it will also not rank you. So there is no worth of doing this. see what kind of content penalties may harm your site.
Google’s View on Duplicate Content (Matt Cutts)
According to Matt Cutts, Google is a smart search engine and able to identify that which content is original and which is duplicate. Generally Google not penalize such sites having duplicate content but also not rank them because Google don’t want to serve same thing to its searchers for the same query. If Google is not ranking your site in its search then it’s not mean that your site is penalized it’s simply means that Google never rank same content for the same query. According to Matt Cutts if you are republishing content with adding more values in it then it may be rank but conditions applied. You can only get penalized if you are trying to manipulate the search results through keyword spamming and stuffing. you’ll also like to read about Google Humming Bird Algorithm Update. why Guest Blogging is important.
So keep in mind that if Google is not ranking your site that may be because of Google don’t want to serve similar things, it’s not mean your site get penalized.
same content will never affect your site’s ranking, why Matt Cutts saying that. let’s discuss it with the help of a video below why and why not our site will get penalized from any kind of duplicate content penalties.
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