Duplicate content kills the Google page ranking of blogs and websites. This has always been a myth over the internet because it is believed that Google will usually penalize the sites with a drop in page rank for using duplicate contents.

Because of this myth, I often write my own blog posts and articles so you hardly see me using contents taken from else where. But I have no control over it if other people scrape my contents and publish them on their sites. The worst thing is that these scrapers claimed that the contents are written by them!

Ironically, these scraper sites usually get indexed by the search engines first before the site of the original content. Ridiculous, huh? I still cannot find an explanation from the search engines regarding this content-scraping issue.

Anyway, I have received emails from two of the successful internet marketers by the names of Jonathan Leger and Pawel Reszka saying that they have found the keys to unlock this duplicate-content myth.

Jonathan Leger has proven in his ShareAPost.com site that duplicate content ranks well. His site is made up of 100% duplicate content, ie. snippets of other people’s blog posts that users can republish on their own blogs.

Jonathan Leger said that syndication has been a standard in offline and online publishing for many years. He doesn’t see any reason as to why Google should ignore content just because it’s been syndicated. Furthermore, he has gathered some data to prove that Google does not ignore it at all!

Next, Pawel Reszka has come out with a pre-launch free ebook to explain how he has found the secret to unlock the myth of using duplicate content. I read through his report and have to admit that Pawel Reszka really have some brilliant ideas. I would expect his newly launched Google Manipulator to provide lots of solid tactics to deal with the use of duplicate content for escaping the big Google slap.