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[admin]

For search engine spiders, if they only crawl the dup content, they wont have to differentiate with other content. The most important thing is to show the content of the originating source.

Where are duplicates filtered? at every point in the process, including crawl time, index time, and query time. Engineers prefer to remove dups at the time of the query. Why would a search engine want to store every copy of a webpage? To continuously validate accross sources, and get a historical perspecive of the "uniqueness" of a content source. Scrapers & copiers can be found by the number of times they copy content.

Also legitimate reasons to duplicates: alternate document formats, syndication, multiple languages and partial duplicate pages from templates (nav, disclaimers, etc.). Occassionally a search engine will want to display multiple duplicates for very specific queries.

Accidental duplication includes session IDs, soft 404's (no 404 status code). Illegal duplication consists of replicating content over multiple domains & aggregation of content.

[karlsult]

Hi,

What about articles we create a submit using a service such as Article Marketer?

Is it still useful?

Karl

[7thDsites]

I've found as far as articles go that it seems to work best to launch your article and get it acknowledged on your own site. Once it's been acknowledged then start distributing it accross the net. This way you'll establish that you are the original.