Is this duplicate content when there is a link back to the original content?
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Hello,
My question is:
Is it duplicate content when there is a link back to the original content?
For example, here is the original page: http://www.saugstrup.org/en-ny-content-marketing-case-infografik/. But that same content can be found here: http://www.kommunikationsforum.dk/anders-saugstrup/blog/en-ny-content-marketing-case-til-dig, but there is a link back to the original content. Is it still duplicate content?
Thanks in advance.
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Thanks a lot for your answers
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Yes, this is duplicate content. Try avoid this situations, this is not a big deal to rewrite the content in other words. It is hard to predict whether your case will harm the sites but if possible don't do this in future.
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Yeah it is duplicate content. If the content is something you want to use, why not add your thoughts about the article and then cite the original as your source. Tweet the author of the initial content and try and get a conversation going, that will do more good than just copying the content
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Yes it is. Like Marc said, try to create unique content by rewriting it. Also, Matt Cutts just covered how a little duplicate content will not hurt (take a look). Also use the rel=canonical tag if appropriate.
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the URLs you mention, use the same text to the same target... it
s not the target URL that
s the problem, it`s the identical text on the URLs you named... is just a short text, so try to rewrite one of them and everything is fine...
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