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    • Consult1901
      Consult1901 last edited by

      From what I understand, Googles no longer has a "Duplicate Content Penalty" instead duplicate content simply isn't show in the search results.  Does that mean that any links in the duplicate content are completely ignored, or devalued as far as the backlink profile of the site they are linking to?  An example would be an article that might be published on two or three major industry websites.  Are only the links from the first website GoogleBot discovers the article on counted or are all the links counted and you just won't see the article itself come up in search results for the second and third website?

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      • jasongmcmahon
        jasongmcmahon last edited by

        Hello,

        Have one article as the main source & mark the others with a Canonicalization tag. Your current approach is somewhat a grey-hat SEO approach.

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