Does Duplicate Content Really Hurt You With Google

While the depate may continue to rage about the use of [tag]duplicate content [/tag] this video may put your mind to rest. This is directly from Big Google and covers not only the fact that there is NO duplicate content penality but other aspects of[tag] Google ranking [/tag] and listing! You should know that If multiple pages have very similar or identical content only one will be indexed.

The video also includes what you need with [tag] Google Sitemaps [/tag] and how to use them. The brief facts:

• Using Google Sitemaps Does NOT affect rankings – it only helps Google find all of your sites pages.

• Additional meta data is optional – if you want to use it Ms. Fox suggested that “last modified” or “Change Frequency” are the attributes most useful to Google. Again, this is important for crawling frequency NOT ranking.

• Sitemaps is very important when site is new and for dynamic sites.
[tag]Google Page Rank[/tag]

• Webmaster tools – pagerank is more up to date then toolbar pagarank –people spend too much time worrying about toolbar page rank.

• Get links from relevant pages – don’t worry about pagerank – you’ll probably get more visitors and traffic.

Here's the 17 minute video and it's well worth watching:

This article is an excerpt from http://www.affiliateprofitcenter.com