February 23rd, 2008
Duplicate Content - How To Beat Duplicate Content Penalties When Publishing Articles Online
The talk about duplicate content penalties often creates misunderstanding in the minds of inexperienced webmasters who end up with the impression that their whole website will be de-indexed if it contains a phrase to be found elsewhere online. Some of them get the idea that if their websites include pages containing other people’s articles, the weight of the penalties imposed on those pages will drag their whole website down into obscurity. This is not how the duplicate content penalty works; it’s brutal but not quite that brutal.