How Copying Content Can Damage Your Position In Search Engines

Copying content can damage your position in search engines and should be avoided at all costs.

Unique content has been and is still the king of Search Engine Optimization.

The best option for your site to be ranked high in the search engine results, is to use original content, information, and to provide interest to your readers.

Here is how copying content can damage your position in search engines:

First of all, duplicate content is not only plagiarism, it is extremely counterproductive in the long run.

Although some website owners quickly run up their rankings with the search engines by using duplicate content, they just as quickly get "slapped" when discovered.

The search engines are getting smarter every day and can for the most part, distinguish the originator of posted articles.

Google, can determine if there is malicious content on your web pages that have the intention of controlling the search engine rankings, or duping your visitors.

Because copying content can damage your position in search engines as well as your credibility; it's a good idea to go over Google's webmaster guidelines to stay on their good side and keep out of trouble.

Copied content from another website, that is published by you on multiple pages as your own content, can cause your website to be severely penalized by the search engines.

The minimum that can occur is that your rating will lowered. The worse that can happen, is that you could be banned from Google for a period of time, or even for life.

Unique content makes your website more desirable for the search engines, is a good advertisement for your site, and will bring in loads of traffic.

Here are a few tips that can get you traffic without copying content that can damage your position in the search engines:

• All of the top ranked websites provide unique, informative content. These websites are more likely to link to your website when they see that the information you provide is useful to their readers, and your contents are not plagiarized.

• Use some of the free content directories that allow you place a link to your website, in return for a single article contribution.

• Many of these sites often have high page ranks; so receiving an incoming link from them is extremely useful to your site ranking.
  
  In addition, you can gain a good deal of traffic when other users pick up the articles you published and click on the links in your resource box to your website.

• Website users searching for solutions, look for consistent unique content from "experts" in their fields.
  
  When they find these "expert authors" they tend to return to these sites on a regular basis.
  

Copying content can damage your position in search engines as well as with your readers, and nothing will destroy your credibility faster than using duplicate content; so if you want to avoid being penalized, don't copy without the author's permission.