Akash

At times, our US branch releases a press release. Shortly thereafter, our various branch offices in other countries place the press release on their website as well.

Now, the question is, will these press releases, duplicated by our various branch websites, suffer a duplicate content penalty? In other words, is there potential for Google to remove our website(s) from the index based on this?

I ask because I notice that our press releases get picked up by various news organizations as well, which I assume is OK based on the fact that these press releases are syndicated content.

In closing, our websites are clean and we are a large, multimillion dollar company. We just want people that visit our website(s) in other countries to be able to read the press releases.

What are your thoughts on this?

I have spoken with Matt at an SES event. I went over the process I was using to build a site at that time with him.

Matt, straightened out my thinking on how to build a site to do well in Google. I listened to what Matt had to say and now do very well in the Google SERP’s without playing the games of the past.

Thanks again for speaking with me Matt!

If you are wondering if Matt actually knows who the heck I am, check out this post on Matt’s blog:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-answers-on-google-video/

I’ve also noticed that yahoo.co.uk doesn’t redirect “site:” queries to siteexplorer? Ok, so Yahoo haven’t rolled out siteexplorer worldwide yet, or that seems to be the case.

So you can do a site: on yahoo.co.uk and still get the good ol’ traditional Yahoo results.

Just thought I would let you know.

Thanks,
Christian

This site/person claims to know and to have interviewed you and that he has the “sercet sauce” so to speak on high organic listings. Have you actually talked extensively to this person?

http://www.veoreport.com/

I remember one of your blog posts talked about people making these kind of claims so I thought I’d check with you.

Jordan

Good thread.

Yes i agree with Adam goggala.com is naff. The brand name is Google, it doesnt mean much in english either so there is no need to change it, unless it means something rude in Turkish, does it?

Julian.

I thought that we had done this topic to death over at WMW in http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3060898.htm and several earlier threads.