The “Duplicate Content”… My inbox is inundated with yet another “article converter” that is guaranteed to make my private label rights articles hit the top of the search engines with no fear of “Duplicate Content!”

Here is the Googles definition to content duplication: “Do not create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.”

So, what this really means?

Do the PLR sites that sell thousands of the same articles to people who don’t have time – or are too lazy – to write their own content are breaking Google’s rules?

Simply put, Google is telling us that you cannot create so called “mirror sites” — a Web site which contains the same content that is located on another site. When the site abc.com is the same as def.com, then it could be disqualified from listing by search engines.

If you do some your own research you can find the forums and elsewhere on the web discussing duplicate content. And many netrepeneurs have taken advantage of the misinterpretation of Google’s policies to capitalize on this. Since Google has made this the era of content, everyone that is involved in the online communities is scrambling for the proper answers.

I see threads that are three to five pages in length on the more popular forums with people agonizing over their fear of duplicate content.

What a field day for the guru’s! I wonder how many thousands – perhaps millions – have been made by people taking advantage of this fear factor?

Lets examine the facts. If there really was a duplicate content filter then many news web sites that publish AP or Reuters news would be banned from search engines. Many catalogue sites would go under, because they sell the same products, using the same promotional items as other sites.

Affiliate sites would be banned from the search engines because people use the promotional items provided by the site owners. And even the giant eBay would go under, because anyone who has spent time there sees a ton of items listed which are identical, using the same description, same images, and same user ID.

I wonder how Copyscape.com would handle this?

And what about the sites that put articles and ezines in archive. This content ends up being displayed both in static pages and archives as well. Penalized for duplicate content, when the website owner wants to have his articles available to the general public?

And most of all, just use plain common sense!

Common sense is the order of the day. The best you can do is, you can take the time and create your own original and unique content for your web site, optimize it for the search engines, create relevant backlinks and boost your site rankings.

There are many kinds of article scrapers promoted out there. Don’t use them as they copy the exact content of other sites and create the mirror website that Google is advises not to do.

When you buy PLR article bundle make sure you rewrite rewrite them in your own unique voice. The better is if you have a budget and can afford it invest a little effort in finding dissent ghostwriter to create quality articles pertinent to your particular niche.

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