Duplicate blog - will it be ok to do so

[Johnroger]

Hello,

One of our client is interested in  creating a duplicate blog under a new URL.  We told them about Google penalizing the new blog since it would have duplicate content.  Will it be ok to go ahead with the plan ?  Their response was there are multiple news sites that carry the same stories. So, they said that it won't matter.

Cheers

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi John,

It depends on how much content they're planning to report there and if they're going to be using a canonical tag or not. In most cases at a small scale I wouldn't worry too much about duplicate content. Especially as they're sometimes rewriting the articles. Duplicate content is usually an issue in my opinion if you're actually stealing the content and if you're doing it at large scale (dozens of articles weekly).

Martijn.

[Johnroger]

Thanks Martijn for your reply.

I would specifically like to know about 2 scenarios

1 )  If client's blog ( Say Blog A )  copies the entire content from some other blog (Say blog B ), but uses a canonical tag pointing to B. Will Blog A outrank Blog B.

2 ) But, if the client rewrites articles from Blog B on his blog, and also uses canonical tag to Blog B.  From your answer, this will be ok. Am i right ?

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