reseller - 7:17 am on Dec 13, 2005 (gmt 0)

Good morning Folks

This thread is still about dealing with the consequence of Jagger Update (not the update or test DC ;-))

One of the consequences of Jagger, is the emphasis on duplicate contents. And it seems "contents" sometimes also cover phrases not to say chapters. I.e we are risking that Google devaluate our pages or even sites because of that.

We as webmasters are facing a real problem here. Especially those of us who are selling products of different variations but basically of same "material specifications".

Furthermore, and talking about duplicates and added value, I read on Inigo's blog his remark concerning articles and added value.

Matt wrote:
"Boney, if someone is just syndicating articles from ezine or articlecity or wherever, that’s not adding a lot of value in my book."

Matt graciously replied today to a post of one of his visitors whom disagreed with Matt's above statement, and mentioned few reasons behind his statement:

"Harith, the danger is that you end up with an article written by someone else, and you have an article that also sits on many other sites. But you’re right, that is a thread for a different day."

[mattcutts.com...]

So we as webmasters have ended in a position where syndicated articles and duplicate phrases on our sites might cause our sites to drop in rankings or subject our sites to be penalized by the folks at the plex.

How are we going to deal with such problems?