Linking to blog posts - duplicate content

[Moe]

Probably an unnecessary question, but I still wonder whether it won't be rated as duplicate content if a link uses the same phrase as the blog post you link to? As it is with myfeedlist or feedburner for example.

[garcia]

Not an issue. Especially in adult where, by this time, everything is duplicated oput there somewhere.

[scopemaster]

When wondering about Search Engine Marketing techniques and potential 'gotchas' of duplicate content - check the source:

Both of the following links are from the Official Google Webmasters Central Blog:

Deftly Dealing with Duplicate Content

Duplicate Content Due To Scrapers

From my own experience, I get much better organic results when the majority of my text content is verbose, unique and handwritten by me.

The couple of adult sites that are powered by feeds don't get nearly as many organic hits as the handwritten content. Of course, the trade off to that is that it takes time (sometimes a lot!) and a little creativity for me to produce the content.

A tool I keep bookmarked and always run my pages and other webmasters pages through is Copyscape. If a third party tool can find dupe content so easily, then you can bet the hair on your nuts that the search engines know about it.

[Moe]

Thanks for copyscape. And I now bookmarked the Google Webmaster Blog, should read this more frequently.
What do you think about a directory like worldpornblogs.com?
It not only uses h1 and h2 tag to rank for your own keyphrases but also duplicates your content. I would conclude this hurts your own blog if you link to that site?
I mentioned feedburner. Wanna be more specific. If you have a few related blogs, all interconnected. You then start using the feedburner headline animator for all blogs. Don't you create a bunch of duplicates in your own backyard this way?
I too think unique content should bring the best results. All my post titles are unique. As long as I don't use tools like feedburner or myfeedlist I guess.
But I really don't know, maybe I just overdo things.

[Tiani]

Originally Posted by Moe

I mentioned feedburner. Wanna be more specific. If you have a few related blogs, all interconnected. You then start using the feedburner headline animator for all blogs. Don't you create a bunch of duplicates in your own backyard this way?
I too think unique content should bring the best results. All my post titles are unique. As long as I don't use tools like feedburner or myfeedlist I guess.
But I really don't know, maybe I just overdo things.

Just speaking from personal experience here and not trying to step on anyone's toes
Most of the time I wouldn't use the Feedburner headline animator simply because it can slow down the loading of the blog (I'm on a slowish connection so I notice these things), especially if placed in a left hand sidebar (which some say are not good for SEO anyway...). If on a Wordpress blog, I just put the feed (feedburner or just blog feed) in a widget.

This is a good way to link your blogs in the same niche - and if you have optimised your post titles well (and they fit in with the blog they are listed on), then IMO, there is nothing wrong with that at all.
And even if you use the headline animator, it only shows a small segment from the post and a link back to your feed, so IMO that is ok.
And as the Google Webmaster blog stresses again and again, if a feed has the link back to the original source, they know where it came from.

And just think about it a moment, some of the highest ranking blogs (mainstream and adult) have their feeds posted all over the place (and scraped many times too), but they do not get penalised, because they have authority.

What I, personally, would be more worried about is connecting all these feeds through the same feedburner account (don't forget it belongs to Google), but that's another strory...

[WatchingU2Nite]

Originally Posted by scopemaster

From my own experience, I get much better organic results when the majority of my text content is verbose, unique and handwritten by me.

Couldn't agree more and have the numbers to prove it.

It is a pain and takes too much time. But the results are in the mailbox every month.

[scopemaster]

It is a pain and takes too much time. But the results are in the mailbox every month.

Hell yeah.

Money In The Bank : The only true metric.

[Hacker Jack]

the question is what pays better? a large number of low maintenance blogs or a lesser number of hand written ones............

[Moe]

Originally Posted by scopemaster

From my own experience, I get much better organic results when the majority of my text content is verbose, unique and handwritten by me.

The couple of adult sites that are powered by feeds don't get nearly as many organic hits as the handwritten content.

But you only speak about sponsor feeds here, hw vs. duplicate content? not the myfeedlist type linktext duplicates..

Originally Posted by Tiani

What I, personally, would be more worried about is connecting all these feeds through the same feedburner account (don't forget it belongs to Google), but that's another strory...

do you have one account per feed?

[Moe]

Scopemaster sorry for the stupid question, i'm a bit abstracted..

Does the myfeedlist type of linking have a significant effect on seo?