Plaigerism

[Quadra]

All

I know that if I directly copy other peoples material I will get punished by Google. What if I save that same or similar copy on different pages within the same site.

What if I have 2 domain names that point at the same directory on my (host) server.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Richard

[fisicx]

The search engines will look at both pages and decide which has more value. The loser in the competition will simply be ignored.

Why do you want to have the same information on two different pages?

[Quadra]

It could be as simple as a slogan, or phrase or legal disclaimer. I wouldn't want masses of identical copy.

[fisicx]

That's not a problem. The search engines are quite clever and can work out which bites are headers, slogans, taglines, navigation, footers etc. As long as the main copy is different then there is nothing to worry about.

As to the legal disclaimer - no need to put it on every page, just link to the disclaimer.

[MrCat]

I would have also suggested that you just inlcude a link on the disclaimer page as this is the more appropriate thing to do..

[OldWelshGuy]

You can also use robots.txt exclusion protocol to stop the spiders from grabbing identical pages. Just coz they're on your site, doesn't mean you have to let them be spidered.

[chris2289]

there are a number of tools that can help with this my friend, dupe cop and copyscape to name two.

Also original content is favoured by google and you will appear up the rankings quicker.

[Cryxellis]

Originally Posted by Quadra

All

I know that if I directly copy other peoples material I will get punished by Google. What if I save that same or similar copy on different pages within the same site.

What if I have 2 domain names that point at the same directory on my (host) server.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Richard

If it is an article content you can get the article, but make it sure that you
include the author and the url of the content you like to put in let us say
your blog. In order not to make Google penalized you for copying materials
without the owner's permission.

[fisicx]

Originally Posted by Cryxellis

In order not to make Google penalized you for copying materials without the owner's permission.

Google won't penalize you for this (or for duplicating copy). All they will do is ignore the page concerned.

[Jamie23]

Which tends to make it not worth the effort of putting there. I never understood the point of sharing other people's content-if my visitors wanted to see someone else's stuff, they could do so at someone else's site. I prefer to keep the stuff on my site original, written by me so that I can be assured of a plagiarism free site.