Duplicate Content - Its Not What You Think
If “duplicate content” had a persona - it would be wringing it’s hands. crying and screaming
“I am so misunderstood.”
(Actually just said that so I can use this pic) 
Jim AKA jcorkern, clarifies the duplicate content issue and shatters some Google myths for us over at the 5 Star forum.
Duplicate Content: It’s Not What You Think!
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“I have been seeing in a lot of threads the misunderstanding of duplicate content. I am writing this to eliminate the misunderstanding so that fear of something does not effect your online marketing. I guess the first thing is to cover the assumptions of the masses of what it is, and then show you the reality of it.
I will give you actual numbers and links so that you can check it out yourself. Then you can see for yourself with proof that there are a lot of people out there spreading “Rumors” instead of facts.
Let’s get started. Most people think that syndicated articles or distribution to multiple places will get the articles removed from the index of Google or Yahoo. If this were true then 99% of articles, news releases, all RSS feeds would be removed from the indexes.
MSN, CNN, ABC, NBC, Google News, Yahoo News would all be violating their own rules.” Read the rest…
