Because this myth never seems to go away no matter how often it’s refuted:
Demystifying the “duplicate content penalty”
by Susan Moskwa, Webmaster Trends Analyst, Google
Friday, September 12, 2008
Duplicate content. There’s just something about it. We keep writing about it, and people keep asking about it. In particular, I still hear a lot of webmasters worrying about whether they may have a “duplicate content penalty.”
Let’s put this to bed once and for all, folks: There’s no such thing as a “duplicate content penalty.” At least, not in the way most people mean when they say that.
See also Duplicate content due to scrapers which is quite a different scenario.
