Google doesn’t penalize duplicate content.

I spoke with some folks from Compendium a few days ago because I’m taking one of their webinars on blogging and ROI. They followed up to see if I was interested in their proprietary system for blogging. It’s an interesting system, though most of my work with nonprofits relies heavily on open source systems rather than proprietary ones.

Still. They are doing some cool things. In our short conversation, I asked about duplicate content and they sent me to this video of Adam Lasnik from Google explaining why we should all stop worrying about duplicate content.

(If you’re not worried, never mind.)

If you are, watch the video and stop worrying about it. Good attribution and good syndication are good for everybody.

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