What is Duplicate Content?

[arindamdutta16]

 Duplicate content is content that appears on the Internet in more than one place (URL). This is a problem because when there are more than one piece of identical content on the Internet, it is difficult for search engines to decide which version is more relevant to a given search query. Duplicate content is very harmful your website.
 

[DevnathSekar]

Duplicate content is content which appears in more than one location on the Internet.
What happen while using duplicate content?
1. It won't rank for that page.
2. The weight of that page will be negligible.
3. A point against the site as a reliable source of quality, unique content will be registered.

[Sunainapaul11]

Duplicate content is the cpoied content from any location or website of Internet. It treated as spam by Google and it gets deleted as soon as Google crawls the web page. So, making unique and quality content can avail you in many ways. Basically it helps to provide quality info to the readers of it.

[Sunainapaul11]

Duplicate content is the copy content from any websites of internet. Copy content treated as a spam by Google and it gets deleted at the instant only. It leaves a bad impact on the viewers of it. So, writing unique content would result in increasing the number of visitors towards a website, blog or article quickly. It even helps in generating huge traffic towards a website within a limited time interval only.

[Harish]

Duplicate content is the content which is crawled by search engines & found that it has already produced by someone else's site, will be treated as duplicated.