Does Autoblogger Pro create duplicate content?

[fuzzylogic]

why are there many people buying this?
This is what I think:
Posting static, duplicate content (i.e. feeds) does NOT sit well with SE's.

But my god, there are many of you that LOVE ABP. Are you writing your own blog entries and just using it's other features?

what are you secrets?

Yes, there is a one-word/phrase rewritter which, IMO is rather impractical for creating unique content. for example, blog entry "today we are going to review the lastest cd-burners." What word would be rewritten? And what would it be rewritten into? If it's rewritten into another word then the sentence may become unreadable. In addition, with the sentence above that would change 10% of that sentence, which is fine for making it unique. however, blog entries (feeds) are often longer then one sentence which rewriting a single word would do little to make that entry unique. If one is rewritting a single word/phrase into another phrase, then that phrase would become duplicated through the blog on every entry that contains the targetted word, which, as we know, duplicate content and phrases do not help in generating SE traffic.
Rewriting multiple words/phrases would not only become quite a headache in creating and maintain entries in ABP but would also make the blog entries unreadable.

[gooddomains]

yes, yes and yes

[Jace]

you need to find out more about how far the duplicate content rule goes, it isn't near as strict as everyone makes it out to be

oops...did I just reveal a secret? haha

[Theo The Theologian]

NO. It sydicates content.

You need only look at google news to see that would be hypocritical of google to look unfavorably on sites syndicating via RSS.

Dupe content is only a problem when you have many articles/content on your own site that are duplicate.


In any case a new feature is planned for ABP that was in the works for a while. I hope that the new team can get it done. I won' say anymore about it but it will certainly end the dupe content worry once and for all.

[edgeprod]

you need to find out more about how far the duplicate content rule goes, it isn't near as strict as everyone makes it out to be

oops...did I just reveal a secret? haha

That's part of it, and I agree with you, Google is far less concerned with site-to-site syndication than it is with same-site and same-class-C duplicates. Also, after I read the original post, I was left scratching my head as to why someone would rewrite only a single word.

For example, if I'm pulling poker feeds (which I do), I might get a post similar to this:

"I headed over to Site.com to play a hand or two of poker. I tossed in my bet and the hand began. I saw after the draw that I had crappy cards, and threw them in."

Let's say I'm optimizing for Hold 'Em. I might rewrite "poker" to "holdem," "draw" to "flop," and "Site.com" to one of my sponsors. I get creative with it.

Fandangos.com gets somewhere around 50,000 monthly visitors. It has for a long time.

PS3Vault.com is in the first few pages of a Google search that returns 175,000,000 results. It has been for a long time.