A Good Time is Blog Time

This was a really interesting video which I found on a Science, Culture and Knowledge blog. I think the guy speaking in this video is right in many ways as he describes how he thinks social media is potentially going to change the way the whole world does business.

You can see how his ideas could be applied with respect to data and electronic information (including music and video). Although I am not sure how it relates to physical products, other than perhaps sharing manufacturing information. But you can see how sharing and providing information or services for free has huge potential, particularly from an advertising perspective or by then offering further services that could potentially be offered at a price.

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I have been hitting the business side of blogging quite hard for a while now with posts on article submission, duplicate content, adsense revenue and affiliate relationships; naming but a few of the subjects I have touched on.

So I thought given the time of year, plus I was a Christmas baby (well nearly it was the 20th December i.e. tomorrow), that I would take a slight detour and do a post on personal blogging. Actually it is a thinly disguised post about business blogging really.

Personal blogging comes very much under the remit of reaching out to communicate with the wider world. This can be by writing a great article, producing a bit of poetry, exploring the history of our times or simply stating a point of view. The latter of course being something every human should have the right to do but is certainly not the end of the list of personal topics.

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As I have been discussing this subject recently I thought it would be a good idea to publish this video which has been produced by Google who have also been discussing the same subject and advising on what to do about inadvertent production of duplicate content.

The video also covers the implementation of the new rel=canonical tag which can be used to identify content that has been duplicated deliberately on a single domain.

Most importantly though, it does confirm that the duplicate content penalty is a MYTH

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The answer to the above question is relatively straight forward and is a little like cholesterol. There is good and bad duplicate content.

So if you are going to be penalised or not depends on the type of duplicate content you are involved with and is why you need to understand which is which.

Bad Duplicate Content

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