Article Content King

Proof That The Google Duplicate Content Filter Does NOT exist?

July 23, 2009 by Dan Blackburn

OK, I have decided to do it, so before I change my mind here goes… I am going to show you a specific product search where I am totally dominating the first page of Google with the SAME article in positions 1, 2, 3 + 4. On a search term where 3 people are PAYING for the top spot.

The chances are that because I am doing to this, the rankings will be gone tomorrow. Showing other marketers your rankings always gives them the kiss of death, however this is a ranking that I do not mind losing.  The article that I have ranked here is not a very good sales tool at all. In fact, it is quite a negative review of a recently released “Article Spinner” called Article Mass Control.

You probably heard of it, it launched with a bit of a bang!

As an article directory owner, I hate article spinners. I think that they undermine the true purpose of article marketing. Given the choice of an article that has already been published at 300 other article directories and an article that was written by a robot, I will take the former every time!

Article Spinners are also, as this post proves, not needed. There is no such thing as a duplicate content filter IMO.

In fact, article spinners just fill the Internet with junk, often illegible articles that no-one wants to read.

The duplicate content myth began (I believe) when people misunderstood a story that renowned SEO expert Brad Fallon told.

It seems that one day, Brad’s programmers created a page that contained ALL of the content on his Wedding Favors site. As a result of this, he lost ALL his search engines rankings. Google found the new page and did not think that it needed to list any of the other pages anymore. It had all the content it needed on one page so it dropped the rest.

A duplicate content filter DOES exist on the same site. i.e. Two pages with exactly the same content on the same site will not both be indexed, but a cross site duplicate content filter… I have only ever seen evidence that it does NOT exist.

Here is some more of that proof. I do not expect these rankings to stick now I have told you this. So here is an image. Check the search today and you will see that it is not faked. And that there are several people paying Google for the keyword phrase “Article Mass Control”.  (Check without quotes and I am still on the first page twice).

Click the image to go to the Google search.