Duplicate Content

Same article on more then one site considered duplicate content?

[bufferzone]

Some webmasters form other sites has approached me about publishing some of my articles concerning Network Security on their sites. They will be linking to my site and of course have me listed as the author. My question is. If I publish my own articles on my website, will the Search engines consider this duplicated content? They will find the articles in the same craws, be course the other sites link to my site, and the articles will be the same on all the sites.

Regards
Kim

[bufferzone]

5 days and no one yet! Has webmasterworld gone on holyday?

[bignet]

i think links back to your site would tell ses that yours is the original

[bufferzone]

That is all very fine, but will the SE’s not consider this as duplicated content and penalize anyway regardless of witch site contains the original content

[tenerifejim]

In my expereice search Engines don't tend to be big fans of duplicate content.

I've got two sites which are effectively the same content with slightly different twists. The first site went up a year ago and ranks fine, the second has been nowhere for 6 months now. Pretty much everything is the same (number of inbound links, outbound links, etc.)

But I've often wondered how search engines determine what page was the orignal content and what page the duplicate is.

Is it the first content they find, or do they have a way of checking the file created/ changed date? Maybe someone can shed some light.

Jim

[Jack_Frost]

I don't think you have to worry about this. There are plenty white papers and articles that get published on multiple sites. I'm sure WebMD, The New England Journal of Medicine, and numerous other publications, sites, etc...will reference similar studies. The search engines are not going to ban sites indiscriminantly. If this were the case, I could just copy competitive sites 10 times, publish each on the web and get them thrown out?

My understanding is that duplicate content is something that has to be reported. A human reviewer can tell if it's legit or not.

[bufferzone]

Thanks very much.

I think I'll give it a try, and then repport back with the results.