arubicus - 11:32 pm on Dec 13, 2005 (gmt 0)

Thanks reseller for this topic I believe that there is much to be discussed.

As far as duplicate content...I find it hard to believe that a scraper scraping a percentage of content would be viewed against the originating site. To me that would be asinine. That would actually create another tool in an unsightly compeditor's arsenal of ways to destroy another's site.

I don't know what it would take for Google to penalize/downgrade for onsite duplication. To me I would think it would be a page only thing not a site-wide thing. Why would they have penalize the complete site for, let's say, re-destributed artlices even if it had a good percentage of unique content? Maybe they view this content as a way to push up internal PR which in turns links to other parts of the site? Why not not just discount single pages considered duplicate and links from those pages leaving the original content in place?

Many webmasters have worries of using snippets of their own articles/contnet when linking to the actual articles/contnet as in topic sub-sections. How is this viewed by Google? How about RSS feeds to other sites that use snippets of articles?

You know there are just too many questions along this line. We will never get a straight answer from G anyway and since there are so many factors in play...even sharing experiences can lead us into false conclusions...still wold be fun to discuss.