Duplicate Content
September 7th, 2009 — 3:43pm
On the subject of penalistation for duplicate content. Google says ….
Duplicate content on a site is not grounds for action on that site unless it appears that the intent of the duplicate content is to be deceptive and manipulate search engine results. If your site suffers from duplicate content issues, and you don’t follow the advice listed above, we do a good job of choosing a version of the content to show in our search results.
So there you go. If you want to read more about this subject check out the official blog post (that I have partly duplicated!) here … http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/demystifying-duplicate-content-penalty.html