Is Syndicated Content Duplicate Content?

Is Syndicated Content Duplicate Content? | Search Engine Journal

Eric, you make a great point, from the blogger’s point of view. Original content is probably the best way to go to get the page to rank in Google (a great point I considered adding to the post and I’m glad you brought up). But that only becomes key if the content is: (1) written using on-page SEO (2) AND if on-page SEO is enough to get the content page to rank (3) and/or if off-page SEO is used, with quality anchor text links pointed at the new content page and (4) if there is enough search volume in Google to send any traffic to speak of. This will depend on the selected keyword search phrases. If on-page works by itself, there may not be much traffic to send (sigh). When all of this is considered, I believe any traffic sent by the search engine to a typical individual post … in the REAL world … is typically relatively small. That was the deciding factor to me in leaving ...

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