One of the most wide-spread misconceptions people have about building websites is in regards to “Duplicate Content”. People fear they’ll be penalized by Google if they have an article that appears on two different sites, or that if they have similar sites for two different cities in which they operate, one of these sites will be banned because it may have a lot of the same content as their other site.

Bottom line, there are a lot of rumors and wrong ideas floating around on the web, concerning duplicate content.

In the video below, you can get some clarification, straight from Greg Grothaus at Google.

Note -- unless you’re fairly technical, the first 6 minutes of this video will be enough for you.