How do search engines react to duplicate content on different domains?

Does it matter?

[knoir]

I have 2 domains and im thinking about writting the same articles for both domains. Is this a bad idea? Will i be penalized for sharing my content with my 2 different domains? How do the search engines react to this?

[Hunter]

Duplicate content under your control is never a good idea.

[fischermx]

Publishing articles does not consitute "duplicate content" and the consecuent penality at all.

Duplication of whole websites is, and specially duplication done under subdomains.

However, even duplication of whole websites under different domain names are hard to catch.

[kurtlclark]

I don't recommend duplicate content, however articles usually will not qualify as duplicate content at all and as it has already been said, it is hard to catch.

I don't know how to do it without putting the URL but I get original articles from this site at any time on basically any subject for my clients sites.

[justarticles.com...]

[steve]

I don't know how to do it without putting the URL but I get original articles from this site at any time on basically any subject for my clients sites.

And you designed it to ;-)

[kurtlclark]

And you designed it to ;-)

Yes he contacted me for a redsign of his existing site since I was using his content quite frequently.

[fischermx]

That site, justarticles, are they charging you for getting the articles?

I've seen other articles site where they charge to the writers, since they are distributing their content.

I found this really rare, frankly I don't understand.
It seems there are many ways to do business with providing content, but who pays? the writer? the publisher? should be free for both?

What do you think?

[fischermx]

Respecting free for the publisher see this :
[contentinfusion.com...]
but they don't even accept submissions.

Respecting charging the publishers :
[ideamarketers.com...]
it is free for writers.

I don't remember where I saw a site where the writers had to pay a small fee per submission batch, I'll look it.

[kurtlclark]

Just Articles is a site that writes the content for you as you need it and order it, it is never duplicated anywhere else.

From what I gather they have a bunch of writers at their beck and call and after an order is placed the writer receives the article requirements, writes the articles, submits them to Just Articles and gets paid for it.

However the small cost that I pay for the content is of a great benefit just to not have to write it all myself.

But the only person who pays is the person ordering the content, everyone else gets paid.

[kurtlclark]

Let me explain it a little better.

JustArticles is where a large number of webmasters get their original content, including myself. They submit an order for say, 300 articles on 300 different topics and 300 different keywords, or something like it.

You can choose the keyword density, topic and keywords that you want to target and know that no one else will ever have the same article, it is only written after you order it and you own the rights to the article when done.

I hope that helps.

[Lorel]

duplicate content gets tagged with "supplemental results" in search engines and it's been my experience that those pages loose rank also.

I had a client that owned two totally different horse sites but we used the pedigrees off one site and put on the other. The 2nd one had all pedigree pages tagged as "supplemental results". All the other page were fine and so was the original site.