Duplicate Content and Penalties

There's been much discussion about Google's Duplicate Content Rule and how it impacts web publishers.

In some cases, pages have been filtered out and removed from the indexes; in other scenarios, publishers have been actually banned from Google and have lost future AdSense revenue and revenue that was due them.

I've heard from a number of publishers who have experienced duplicate content penalties. They are upset and angry, frustrated that they have been penalized because of either duplicate content or malicious activity carried out by
others.

I've prepared Google's Duplicate Content Rule: Information That Sheds Light on Google's Policies for those who find wading through the FAQs at Google's site too laborious.

Article resources shed light on Google's indexing practices, steps that are designed to provide the most relevant results for searchers.

I hope this article helps to clarify issues that concern webmasters, publishers, and others who produce online content.