Duplicate content
Is the issue with the duplicate content penalty an issue at all or is there some validity in the claim? I believe there is...To a degree. In some instances you can get heavily penalised by Google for certain duplicate content transgressions for other forms of duplicate content there really is no great penalty, let me try to explain.
The big issue with duplicate content is with content on your own site, which doesn't take much to figure is damn stupid as it can only degrade the user experience, here you will get heavily penalised by Google for having the same content showing up more than once on the same domain.
Now in dealing with this content on-site there are a number issue you may need to address, the obvious which is replicated content you placed on your site you need to physically deal with this issue. Secondly there is the more often than not overlooked server side issues that need to be addressed, which may cause duplicate content issues with, Googles algorithm interpreting you site incorrectly or correctly interpreting incorrect server side configuration. Most of which can be corrected with access to and reconfiguration of your.ht access file.
Off-site duplication of content I believe is less of an issue, certainly your site won't get penalised as above. For example if you create a unique piece of content and distribute it unaltered to say thirty article directories and link back to your blog I believe that you'll only get link juice or full weight credit from several links and maybe some reduced credit from several more.
Ultimately these links will have weight as other people are picking up your articles and re-publishing them, so you would think in the Google's eyes there must be some weight attached to that article and link but it makes sense that the same piece, duplicated hundreds of times may be seen as someone trying to best the system, common sense says that the weight applied to these links would be downgraded considerably and in excess maybe penalised.
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