There’s been a constant battle among search engine optimization folks about whether duplicate content hurts your rankings with search engines. I’m talking about two or more web sites or pages that have the exact same content on it.

For example, if 1000 people all had a page on their website that quoted the entire US Bankruptcy Code, would Google penalize everyone, some people, or nobody at all?

The answer is clear – one person gets the benefit, everyone else gets the short end of the stick.

For a detailed review of the problem go to this post on SEOmoz, which clarifies it once and for all.

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