Duplicate content penalties: problems with google’s filter

Google’s extra content filter is notorious. There have been many articles written about it, many forum posts and discussions regarding it, and guess that runs rampant. What there has seemed be a lack of, nevertheless, is treatment as to whether or not other hunt engines apply extra content filters for their hunt results, like Google does so famously. Why do you suppose that is?

possibly it’s because Google has it all wrong, at least in the eyes of those acquiring penalized for extra content. It is, in fact, the ones being penalized that created the master content, but are no where to be found in the SERPs. It feels to those webmasters as if they invented a new merchandise, and because of that merchandise’s popularity duplicates popped up everyplace. Flattering at first, but in the end, it is one of their rival who duplicated the idea, who patent of invention it as their own. To add abuse to hurt the master creator of the merchandise gets fined for claiming it was their own. It makes them want to screaming “Liar, liar, pants on fire…” Ok, I’m being a bit facetious, but it surely feels unfair. Is it cheat? Yes, in a way, it is. But this is how the game is played, at least for this minute in time with Google.

While it does seem that most hunt engines apply a filter of a sort, it appears that only Yahoo and MSN have the engineering to analyze where the content originated. And because their filters are workings like they should be, you aren’t hearing anyone complaining about it. People generally don’t complain about something that works right; they complain about things that are workings incorrectly; in fact many times a bit too loud.

The experimentation

I decided to take a closer look at this myself, and perform a simple experiment. I performed a test recently on some of the search engine’s duplicate content filters. Honestly, even I was a bit astonished by the results.

I published an article on my website a while back, and then promoted that article through article submission sites. I watched the SERPs for about six weeks, and took note of the results. All three of the major engines, Google, Yahoo, and MSN were analyzed. I then republished the article again through the article submission sites, and watched these results as well. Here are the results: