Duplicate Content does effect
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Hey there,
I am Doing SEO For one of my client For mortgage Company. As i have Checked in Other mortgage sites, they used to have Same Content/Details, In all Websites, & my client site have also Some of them,
So my Question is as per Google If there Duplicate Content, it will be Got penalize, But as i see Ranking & traffic For competitor site, They have Duplication, then also Rank For 1st page,. what is Reason behind? so i also Implement/Execute our site With that same content?? or i'll Got penalize??
Thnx in advance
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Thank you so much, it help lot..
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There are a lot of variables in your question.
There are different sorts of duplicate content, for example the same product may appear in different pages on the website that is ok. However, if you are talking about long form content such as a blog copying and pasting this will definitely get you in trouble sooner or later.
Aside from Google at very least you will have a copyright issue, the original creator of that content owns it where ever it is published and it is a breach of copyright to reuse or publish without their permission.
The reason they haven't been penalized could well be Google hasn't found it yet or it could be they were the original creator. Google is very clever working out duplicate content the most likely thing you will notice is the page simply will not rank in Google.
If you repeatedly, copy content Google will eventually see your site as 'no value' and you could encounter a penalty or at very least a downgrading in ranks across all pages. -
Hi, thanx For reply
What i am saying is, Why Other competitor Who having copy content But still ranks on First page?? Why they r not getting penalized By Google??
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Hi,
You copied competitor web content or competitor copied from your website?
In later case you can inform Google by filling this form @ https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreportform?hl=en&pli=1
Thanks
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