Google's John Mueller talked about how Google may perceive the practice of using your own content you already wrote on one site, and then copying it over to another site or two, with some tweaks to fit that site. Is this considered plagiarizing content? Is this doorway pages? Will the content do well?
The question came up at the 7:36 mark into the video from this Friday. The question was "Is Google okay with publishers plagiarizing their own content? For example, I wrote an affiliate article suggesting something for mom. Can I copy the content of that article to write more articles for maybe a sister or a wife or an aunt or a grandmother?"
Self Plagiarism?
The technical answer is this is really not considered plagiarism if you own the content. Meaning, you can't plagiarize yourself. John said "so I don't know like what what the full definition of plagiarizing is but it seems like if you're re using your own content that's not really plagiarizing, well at least the way that I understand it."
Will Google Rank Self-Copied Content?
But in terms of how Google will treat content that you copy from one site to the next, well, that might not do too well - but you can do what you want. He said, just tweaking some words from content on one page and copying it over to a new page or new site, probably won't add much value and might not rank well. He said "from from Google's point of view if you're taking content from your own website and publishing that again with some elements of...
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