Does Paginating a Long Article Risk Duplicate Content?

[imbckagn]

I have tutorials published on my website that have upwards of 10,000 words on a single page. I am considering breaking these tutorials into separate pages by chapter.

My question is will this cause any sort of duplicate content penalty? No two pages will contain the same content once a tutorial has been broken up.

My concern is that Google has already associated a particular page with that content. Once I move the content from that page to a new page I don't want Google to see this as duplicate content.

[tedster]

I assume that the original URL will be turned into page 1 - and that would be fine. If you don't leave the full 10,000 words live on a single URL somewhere, then you don't have duplicate content.

My question is will this cause any sort of duplicate content penalty?

There is only a filter, not a penalty - see Duplicate Content demystified at Webmaster Central Blog [webmasterworld.com]

[imbckagn]

Thanks Tedster I started converting these to multiple pages already. I figured there wouldn't be a problem if the content isn't on multiple pages, just as you said.