: SEO value of duplicating content externally I run a website that includes a blog which was hand-coded by myself and is hosted on the same domain. My partner in this endeavour thinks it would

@Gonzalez347

Google is an algorithm. They cannot detect duplicate content by comparing it with billions of pages in the web. Anyone who is familiar with ngrams and databases ought to know it. What they merely does is to rank the same content based on the authority and various other factors. This is what is done algorithmically. But manual penalty is a different story. One way or the other, duplicate content is not good in the long run.

But since the content is created by you, why not make one of the blog as canonical URL and let the other be the authority blog? That way you can use the same content, and don't have to fear about duplicate content.

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@Margaret670

Do not duplicate - it is (sorry to disagree Panindra) unusual for Google to severely punish unless you are duplicating the entire website - with individual pages it is very likely it will simply ignore one of the pages.. the problem this raises is which page does it ignore (your site or the blog site).

However, if the entire site is duplicated, as Panindra said, you could end up in trouble.

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@Rivera981

I think now days Google is smart enough to identify duplicate contents . Google will punish severely for duplicate content.


Google will good job of choosing a version ( chooses domain) of the content to show in search results.
Better solution is to allow search engines to crawl these URLs, but mark them as duplicates by using the rel="canonical" link element, the URL parameter handling tool, or 301 redirects.

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