Question on Revisions because of Duplicate Content

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   teacherfidelposted 13 years ago

   Two of my hubs needs revisions before republication because of duplicate content. But what if those hubs are just similar to the articles I myself have previously published in the net before? So basically I'm not copying anybody else's work, because both are mine. Is that allowed here? If not, how much revisions do I have to make?

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      lrohnerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      There's "similar" and then there's "too similar." If all you did was change a word here or there, the moderator probably deemed that it was "substantially similar" to the original article. Hard to say without seeing the hub, but you probably need to rewrite a bunch more of it to make it truly unique.

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      sofsposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Even if you do not copy the content of others but submit your own article without having rewritten it completely your hubs would run into trouble being labelled duplicate. Check  out. this hub
      http://hubpages.com/hub/Forget-copying- … e-a-review , it may help you to get rid of the duplicate substandard tags.

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   mdlawyerposted 13 years ago

   About a year ago, I published some hubs and after two days I republished them on other sites.  All those hubs are labelled "duplicate".  Then they told me to wait for a week minimum to republish.  I don't know what is the position now.  As duplicate content is a serious issue with search engines now, I publish only unique content anywhere.

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   Rosie2010posted 13 years ago

   Even if it is your own original article published somewhere else, it will still be deemed duplicate.  Please read this
   
   http://hubpages.com/faq/#duplicate_content

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   mdlawyerposted 13 years ago

   Yes. That's true. Previously, dupicate content was allowed, only the hubscore was affected.

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   teacherfidelposted 13 years ago

   I got this from the first suggested link:
   
   "You will then have the opportunity to resubmit the article once the problem has been resolved, usually by completely rewriting the Hub or by removing any duplicates elsewhere on the Internet."
   
   Is this true? Well, I went ahead and deleted everything in other publishing sites. Figured I'd stick with Hubpages since it's the one I like best.

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      sofsposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      It will still show up as duplicate as your articles would already be indexed with Google and will show up as archives. You may have to wait for sometime till they are deindexed.

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   mdlawyerposted 13 years ago

   They may appear in search for a few weeks or even a month, hence wait till they disappear.

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   teacherfidelposted 13 years ago

   thanks sof and mdlawyer, you've been very helpful. ^^
   quick question: is there an easy way for me to know if my deleted articles are already "deindexed"?

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