Avoiding Duplicate Content

Avoiding duplicate content on your site is an imperitive step if you want your site to grow successfully. When Google spiders your site, they read all of your content. If your content was purely ripped off of another site, or even another article on your site, they will condemn the new article and penalize your overall site.

Duplicate content is an old method of search engine spam, and has been effectively defeated by Google and many other search engines on the internet.

So, just a reminder! Avoid duplicate content at all costs because it is a great way to lose Google ranking if you do.

Here's a free tool to let you see if your research material was too close to your published article:

http://www.duplicatecontent.net/

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This post was written by Greg Voakes of Stikky Media Internet Marketing in Victoria, BC.