A very active SEO in the Google forums posted a thread at the Google Webmaster Help forums asking why does it seem Google is contradicting itself with their advice on how to handle duplicate content.
He points out two different help documents:
(1) Google-friendly sites #40349:
So which is it? Do we block the duplicate content or not? With Panda rolling out globally and Google giving advice to remove duplicate content and non-original content, what is one to do?
New Googler Pierre Far passed this on to Googler JohnMu who replied:
But is Google still contradicting themselves in those two help articles?
Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.
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