If you ever want to get your blog read, then you need make sure you are note duplicating other peoples words and ideas into your blog or site. Why? Well Google defines duplicate content as “substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely match other content or are appreciably similar.”

Ya so… why is this bad? Well think of it this way. If you are trying to become the biggest and most used Search Engine, what would be your number one goal be? Well for me would to give my users the most relevent results to what they searched for. Now if I looked up a subject and all of the results that came back were the same do you think that people would feel that they are getting the selection that they wanted?

NOPE. So they would leave and go start using some other search tool. Hopefully now you can see why google wont allow duplicate websites and blog entries. They want to become the best. To be the best they need only to show the best results.

So get out there and put your thinking caps on and dont duplicate (steal) content from other peoples sites.
Write your own, be creative.

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