Originally Posted by u-Bob

Stop worrying about things you have no control over. There's no way to figure out how exactly Google determines something is a duplicate and what the original is.

Do you know how much time I spend watching the position of my sites in the SERPS? 0.
Do you know how much time I spend 'analyzing' the latest Google update? 0.
Do you know how much time I spend worrying about the latest Google update? 0.

I simply focus on building more sites, more content, more links, more subscribers etc. The second a surfer visits my sites, I log and analyze as much as possible in order to optimize ad space etc. Those are thing I can control.

However, I have no control over what Google does or what other webmasters/seos/marketeers do. I don't control when and how Google updates its algos. I can't stop others from being inspired by my articles or using them as a basis for their spinning schemes.... So why worry about those things when there's plenty of things I can control.

At the end of the month only one thing matters: how much profit I made. not that 1 site has a #1 position and that another site dropped 10 places.