How much constitutes duplicate content in your opinion?
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Mornin'
In your experience, how much constitutes duplicate content? A sentence, a paragraph, half a page, etc? What about quotes - are they considered duplications, too, if there aren't quotation marks?
Over the years, the client has been a bit bad in taking a paragraph from here, a sentence from there, and coupling it all together as daily news on their site. I'm now in the middle of a purge. Oh boy!
All hail originality.
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Thanks,
That's the tool I've been using and it is very handy. I can now show the company that I know exactly what's going on.
After reading this SEOmoz post though - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/weed-out-your-lowest-performing-pages - I am considering removing the old news articles from 4/5/6 years ago. They have no page authority, and they receive no traffic. My developer thinks it's a bad idea.
Any thoughts on doing so?
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I always use copyscape for everything I write even though my articles are original just in case a term or phrase has been said before, - nothings original anymore.
its very cheap - I've been using them all year and haven't run out of my $10 credit.
They scan the web for duplicate content - if they find it, google will too.
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This post covers all the different types of duplicate content in some detail:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/fat-pandas-and-thin-content
I have never read anything else that is as informative and clearly explained as that post.
Read it and be enlightened!
Cheers
Marcus
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