Are backlinks within duplicate content ignored or devalued?
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From what I understand, Googles no longer has a "Duplicate Content Penalty" instead duplicate content simply isn't show in the search results. Does that mean that any links in the duplicate content are completely ignored, or devalued as far as the backlink profile of the site they are linking to? An example would be an article that might be published on two or three major industry websites. Are only the links from the first website GoogleBot discovers the article on counted or are all the links counted and you just won't see the article itself come up in search results for the second and third website?
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we would recommend not having duplicated content marketing on your website, rewrite the text in a white hat way. we done this for demolition company, and improved their seo.
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Hello,
Have one article as the main source & mark the others with a Canonicalization tag. Your current approach is somewhat a grey-hat SEO approach.
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