So, which is the “original content”?
Continuing my look at the duplicate content issue, has anything changed over the festive break?
Yes, and no. Searching on the test phrase, I can still see that my posting is number 1 and 2 in Google. That is the same. But what has changed is the number of other results listing. Google is now showing about 30 results in the first instance and 51 when you don’t exclude the similar results.
What does this show? Well, Google does still seem to be respecting this site as the original author of the work, because all of the other sites are linking back to it. However, there is one puzzle still.
The post was also submitted to EzineArticles.com as an article and it should be appearing there. Yet their high ranking website does not appear, even in the supplementary results.
Now, I will need to check that I have not forgotten to submit it to EzineArticles.com, but assuming that I have and it is now published in their archives it is unusual that weeks later there is no sign of it in the results. Maybe they were just too late listing it compared to all other reprints?
Any way, the important thing is that the old theory of how Google treats republished work seems to be no longer valid – whereby it listed as the first result the site with the highest PageRank.
Maybe, just maybe, PageRank really is dead?
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- Is Google’s Page Rank Definitely Dead?
- Have We Had A Minor January PageRank Update?
- Will PageRank Ever Update Again?
- Are you wondering about your PageRank?
- Revenge For Stealing My Content
- Does Content Writing Truly Work?
- Does Anyone Else Sense A PageRank Update?
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